Dementia
Dementia
4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, double the number in 1980. 10% of over 65’s and 50% of over 85’s have Alzheimer’s disease at a cost of $100 billion per year in the US. 14 million Americans will have Alzheimer's disease by 2050 unless a cure or prevention is found.
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The aim of the evening symposium was to discuss multimodal treatments of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and the development of a new treatment...
The term rapidly progressive dementia (RPD) is used to describe cases with a progression course which usually ranges between weeks and months.1–4...
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disorder mainly affecting the frontal and/or temporal lobes, leading to dementia with prominent...
Dementia is a syndrome that can have multiple causes and is characterised by deterioration in different domains of cognition, especially memory,...
Since the prevalence of dementia is increasing as the population ages, estimates of the number of people with dementia are constantly being adjusted;...
Medical Guidelines
To improve the dying experience for people with dementia and build upon recommendations by the Alzheimer's Association in Phases 1 and 2 of Dementia Care Practice Recommendations for Assisted Living...
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Dementia News
| Mayo Clinic Researchers Find that Variants in a Gene on the X Chromosome are Associated with Increased Susceptibility to Alzheimer's Disease | Mayo Clinic discovery in a rare brain disorder suggests a common mechanism may underlie many neurodegenerative diseases | |
| In the Jan. 11 online edition of Nature Genetics, researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered the first gender-linked susceptibility gene for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, read more | In the Jan. 11 online edition of Nature Genetics, a Mayo Clinic-led international consortium has found a mechanism that may help explain Parkinson's and other neurological disorders read more |
