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.

An elderly couple
Artificial sweetener

A massive study found: These are the artificial sweeteners linked to dementia

Every measurable decrease in retinal thickness increased the risk of Alzheimer’s by about 3%

A decade-long study: This eye sign can predict dementia years in advance

Comparison of two brain diagrams. Left, normal brain, right, brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease.

'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.

Man plays guitar (illustrative)

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.

 Yogurt

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.

 Patients with Alzheimer's and dementia are sit inside the Alzheimer foundation in Mexico City

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.

Holocaust survivor Betty Stein, 92, (L) and Eli Boyer, 91, play ping pong at a program for people with Alzheimer's and dementia at the Arthur Gilbert table tennis center in Los Angeles