Change the lighting; improve your health. It’s a strategy researchers from Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and the School of Medicine, the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center...
A “Light Bulb” Moment For People With Dementia
Early Detection Is Key In Dementia
The leader of dementia research in CSIRO’s Preventative Health National Research Flagship, Dr Cassandra Szoeke, says the report highlights the challenge the nation faces with the number of dementia sufferers predicted to double to 465,000 by 2030. “About 80 per cent of dementia in Australia...
New Evidence Ties Gene To Alzheimer’s
Of dozens of candidates potentially involved in increasing a person’s risk for the most common type of Alzheimer’s disease that affects more than 5 million Americans over the age of 65, one gene that keeps grabbing Johns Hopkins researchers’ attention makes a protein called neuroglobin. Adding...
Discovery Of Similar Structures In Sanfilippo Syndrome And Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers seeking to understand the causes of a rare genetic lysosomal storage disease, Sanfilippo syndrome type B, were surprised to find protein aggregates, known as neurofibrillary tangles, that are usually seen in Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, according to a study published May...
People With Dementia To Benefit From Major Investment In Health Care Environments, UK
The physical environment in which the NHS cares for people with dementia is to be improved as a result of the next phase of The King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment programme, funded by the Department of Health. Minister for Care Services, Phil Hope MP, announced that nurse-led...
Avineuro Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Beginning Of Phase I Clinical Studies Of AVN-101, Potent Small Molecule For Treatment Of Alzheimer’s Disease
Avineuro Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced an initiation of Phase I clinical studies of AVN-101, a potent small molecule for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The results of Phase I studies are expected to be available in May 2009. Based on these and other results, Avineuro Pharmaceuticals, Inc....
Warning: Alzheimer’s risk and Anesthetics
Everyone knows that its important to keep a cool head, but a new study published online in The FASEB Journal shows that for Alzheimer’s patients, a cool head may make the disease worse. In the research report, scientists show that a protein associated with Alzheimer’s (called “tau”)...
Alzheimer’s Society Comment On Current System Of Charging For Care, UK
The publication by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation proposes four steps to make things better for people in the short-term while the government works towards long-term changes to how we pay for care. ‘This report opens the debate on how the government must bring immediate financial relief to people...
Response To President Obama’s Address To Congress
In his first address to a joint session of Congress last night, President Obama laid out the significant challenges facing the nation - from a weakened economy, to rising unemployment, to increasing health care costs, acknowledging that “comprehensive health care reform is the best way to strengthen...
Alzheimer’s Society Comment On The Benefits Of ‘brain Training’ Products
One million people will develop dementia in the next 10 years so there is a desperate need to find ways to prevent dementia. ‘The idea that ‘brain training’ may prevent cognitive decline is extremely attractive, but worryingly there is only very limited evidence. Alzheimer’s Society...