Dementia
Your parent’s dementia diagnosis makes it crucial to take the right steps immediately
A geriatrics expert explains how to prepare the home for a patient, what is important to focus on – and why sometimes it is necessary to move to a nursing home.
A massive study found: These are the artificial sweeteners linked to dementia
A decade-long study: This eye sign can predict dementia years in advance
'Aging in Wellness and Adversity': Embracing patients coping with old age, dementia - book review
Most Alzheimer's patients don’t lose this area of memory
Although dementia causes widespread brain damage, many patients who suffer from memory loss are able to preserve musical memories. This miraculous power of music can also be harnessed to treat them.
Can eating yogurt prevent dementia in the future?
As of 2021, 6.2 million Americans and more than 100,000 Israelis are living with Alzheimer's disease.
WHO: Number of people with dementia set to jump 40% to 78m. by 2030
Dementia affects memory, orientation, learning capacity, language, judgement, and the ability to perform everyday tasks.
Can we prevent astrocytes in our brain from using cholesterol to cause Alzheimer’s?
Alzheimer’s is primarily caused by a protein called “tau”, which creates “tangles” in the brain neurons, and by a substance known as amyloid-beta (Aβ), which forms extracellular plaques.