Dementia Awareness Week
One person develops dementia every three minutes, yet too many face it alone. This Dementia Action Week, we're calling on…
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Muddled memories help dementia patients
Should we always challenge the distorted beliefs of someone with dementia or do inaccurate memories play an important role in…
Life is all memory
We’ve all forgotten to pack our toothbrush for the holiday, or the reason why we went up the stairs. But…
Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures
https://youtu.be/aLsVS0lrRD0 The Alzheimer's Association International Conference in currently taking place in London. Learn more about the facts and figures relating…
Keeping young
My first trusteeship was back in 1987 for what is now Age UK. The charity now includes more than 150…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…