Study: No racial disparity in life expectancy for dementia
Jun 10, 2009
Although previous studies have indicated that blacks with dementia tend to live longer than whites with the disease, a new study finds that the condition decreases life expectancy equally among the races.
Study: Alzheimer’s drugs should be more widely used
By
McKnight's Staff
Mar 09, 2012
Alzheimer’s medications typically used only in early stages of the disease can be more useful in later, more severe stages of dementia than previously thought, a new study suggests.
Older adults who volunteered more often had better emotional well-being, were less likely to have Alzheimer’s disease and had lower risks for not being able to perform activities of daily living.
App tracks dementia day to day
By
Tim Mullaney
May 01, 2014
Getting insight into the daily life of someone with dementia often is a difficult goal for family members who are not nearby. There’s now help in the form of a smartphone application conceived by...
Familial versions of Alzheimer’s could be detected two decades before symptoms start, research...
Jul 25, 2011
Inheritable types of Alzheimer’s disease could be detectable up to 20 years before the onset of memory and cognition problems, new research suggests.
Commonly used drugs can quicken cognitive decline in elderly, reports say
May 07, 2008
Anticholinergics – a group of drugs commonly prescribed to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, urinary incontinence and acid reflux – may cause a more rapid decline in cognitive...
Poor medication adherence set to trigger a tide of nursing home admissions: report
By
Tim Mullaney
Oct 16, 2013
Nearly 100 million Americans are not taking medications as prescribed, leading to unnecessary deaths, hospitalizations and nursing home admissions. This is creating an impending care crisis as the population...
BREAKING: First appropriate use guidance published for Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 27, 2021
The first set of guidelines has been published for clinicians who wish to prescribe the new drug aducanumab (Aduhelm) and to properly monitor its administration. The recommendations fill the gaps between...
Dementia-related speech difficulties found to reflect patients’ native language
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 10, 2020
Italian- and English-speaking patients with the same form of dementia had different speech symptoms that affected diagnostic measurements.
Report: During pandemic, Alzheimer’s discharges to home health, home rise, while those to nursing homes...
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 29, 2024
A new study pinpoints how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the post-hospital discharge settings for people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRDs). Discharges to nursing homes fell, while...