https://youtu.be/aLsVS0lrRD0 The Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in currently taking place in London. Learn more about the facts and figures relating to this disease here in this video. […]
Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures
Tag: dementia
Keeping young
My first trusteeship was back in 1987 for what is now Age UK. The charity now includes more than 150 local Age UKs throughout England as well as the national bodies in each of the devolved countries. Age International works similarly in some of the world’s poorest countries. Each charity is dedicated to help older […]
Voxel mapping for Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease is by far the commonest form of dementia, affecting around 1.5 per cent of all people over the age of 65. There is still no cure, but research has shown that loss of higher brain functions is caused when normal amyloid proteins change their shape and settle as coils of fibrous material on […]
Open access to memory clinics
Around 850,000 people in the UK are living with dementia, but the number of people who actually have the condition without being given a formal diagnosis is thought to far exceed this. People who have undiagnosed dementia are much less likely to receive the specialist help they need, and they deteriorate more quickly than those […]
Light on dementia
Alzheimer’s disease is by far the commonest form of dementia affecting around 5 per cent of all people over the age of 75. There is still no cure but research has shown that loss of higher brain functions is associated with deposition of a protein called amyloid which, in Alzheimer’s disease folds into an aberrant shape to form insoluble […]
Till death, or the nursing home, us do part?
“For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death us do part”. These are the promises made between a loving couple as they look ahead to a long and happy marriage. But will you really be together until one of you takes your final breath? According to the Office […]
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The brain of Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s is a disease that physically affects the brain, causing the cells to die off. It is named after a German neurologist, Alois Alzheimer who first described it in 1906. Two abnormal structures are prime suspects in damaging and killing off nerve cells. They are plaques and tangles. Plaques build up between nerve cells, and contain deposits of a […]
Your risk of getting Dementia
As part of our regular series on the risks of getting common chronic diseases, this week we look at your risk of developing dementia. The number of people with dementia is steadily increasing, mainly due to population growth and the fact that people are living longer. Alzheimer’s, which is the major cause of dementia affecting 62 per […]
Longing for a healthy heart?
Men and women of the future will be feeling the effects of age-related health problems later in life, according to the Office for National Statistics. Women of the future, on average, will have 64 years to enjoy unfettered good health, although men will have a little less time with the ‘best of health’ coming to an end […]
Soya
Consuming too many soya products like tofu might increase the risk for memory loss, according to some studies. One study published in April 2000 in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition found that Japanese men living in Hawaii who ate the most tofu during their mid-40s to mid-60s were more likely to have […]