Healthy Ageing Psychology Research
Researchers from Northumbria University are asking adults aged 65 or over to spare some time to help with their latest…
Alzheimer’s & Dementia
Healthier for Longer
'BGS Healthier for Longer’, a new report published by the British Geriatrics Society, examines how messages of prevention and healthy…
One in Twenty British Adults Claim They will NEVER Retire
And of those who do believe retirement is on the cards, one in 10 reckon they’ll be aged 70 or…
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…
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…