How To Communicate With Someone Who Has Advanced Dementia:  Validation Therapy

How To Communicate With Someone Who Has Advanced Dementia: Validation Therapy

Do you not understand why you have to continuously repeat the same thing to your family member with dementia? Does it bother you that they […]

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Brain changes due to poor sleep increases stroke and dementia risks in seniors

Brain changes due to poor sleep increases stroke and dementia risks in seniors

Brain changes due to poor sleep increases stroke and dementia risks in seniors Sleep disturbance in elderly persons is associated with brain changes such as […]

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A protein, normally active in fetuses, may also protect the neurons in older people.

A protein, normally active in fetuses, may also protect the neurons in older people.

A protein, normally active in fetuses, may also protect the neurons in older people. Along with symptoms of cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease patients often have […]

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Brain scans may one day be used to predict dementia

Brain scans may one day be used to predict dementia

Brain scans may one day be used to predict dementia. Using brain scans, researchers were able to monitor mental decline over a two-year period in […]

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Mysterious brain clumps behind dementia identified

Mysterious brain clumps behind dementia identified

Mysterious brain clumps behind dementia identified. Certain forms of dementia may be caused by a gene mutation that makes proteins in the brain clump together, […]

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Alzheimer’s patients can’t make decisions easily, so you must guide them

Alzheimer’s patients can’t make decisions easily, so you must guide them

Alzheimer’s patients can’t make decisions easily, so you must guide them. It is very common for Alzheimer’s dementia patients to say No. There is a […]

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Senate panel: Dementia a $20 trillion threat

Senate panel: Dementia a $20 trillion threat

Senate panel: Dementia a $20 trillion threat. The United States has to continue to make funding scientific research on Alzheimer’s disease and other causes of […]

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Alzheimer’s signs show in young brain

Alzheimer’s signs show in young brain

Alzheimer’s signs show in young brain. Scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease are increasingly finding clues that the brain begins to deteriorate years before a person shows […]

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