New Healthcare Framework to Help Ageing Populations Stay Healthier for Longer
An international team of researchers have put forward a position statement, published in Science, which lays out a new healthcare…
Alzheimer’s & Dementia
Serum Neurofilament a Discriminative Biomarker Between Frontotemporal Dementia & Psychiatric Disorders
Early symptoms of frontotemporal dementia are often confused with symptoms occurring in psychiatric disorders. Reporting their findings in Journal of…
Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Gene Impairs Function of Brain Immune Cells
A study carried out with a new human stem cell-derived model reveals that the most prevalent genetic risk factor of…
Protein tangles linked with Dementia
Scientists have visualised for the first time protein tangles associated with dementia in the brains of patients who have suffered…
Care Home Nursing: The World’s Largest Relay Race?
In a relay race members of a team take turns completing parts of a course, with relay being defined as…
Mouth Care Matters in Older People
Our population is ageing as the health care workforce is ever more stretched; is mouth care being sacrificed on the…
Opioid analgesics increase the risk of pneumonia among persons with Alzheimer’s disease
Opioid analgesics were associated with a 30% increase in the risk of pneumonia in persons with Alzheimer’s disease, a recent…
Global Survey Reveals that 3/4 of Respondents Embarrassed Because of Their Hearing Loss
Denmark, 22nd May 2019 – A new survey[i] conducted in ten countries, specifically designed to study the habits of people…
Aspects of Age
A new exhibition 'Aspects of Age' opening this week at the Royal College of Nursing reflects how the way we…
Frailty is still assessed only in terms of physical health
Frailty may still be primarily viewed only in terms of physical health – and not all physical, social, mental and…