Category: Alzheimer’s

Vitamin E, selenium not effective in preventing dementia: study

Antioxidant supplements vitamin E and selenium — taken alone or in combination — did not prevent dementia in older men, a U.S. study said Monday. Antioxidants as potential treatment for cognitive impairment or dementia have been of interest for years because oxidative stress, a process that causes cell damage, has been implicated as a dementia pathway, said the study published online in the U.S. journal JAMA Neurology.

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Coming up in Cowichan: Seedy Saturday and Walk of Alzheimer’s

This March, bestselling author and Salt Spring Seeds owner Dan Jason will be visiting Cobble Hill to promote a new edition of his book, Some Useful Wild Plants: A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine from Nature. Jason will attend Cobble Hill’s Seedy Saturday at the Cobble Hill Community Hall on Saturday, March 11, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Featuring over 100 common useful wild plants in Canada, Some Useful Wild Plants serves as a guide for foragers, herbalists, gardeners, and anyone interested in learning more about the many ways plants can be used to our advantage.

Author hopes DeMoe family story spreads awareness

When author Niki Kapsambelis met Lori DeMoe in 2009, Lori already had some early symptoms of the disease that had already claimed the lives of her grandmother, dad, older brother and several extended relatives. But, Kapsambelis said, unless you knew the odds Lori faced as the member of a family predisposed to early onset Alzheimer’s, you would never believe she was destined to lose her battle with the fatal disease.

Alzheimer’s seminar Tuesday at Polo Senior Center

POLO – The 10 early warning signs of Alzheimer’s is the topic of a free seminar at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Polo Senior Center, 101 E. Mason St. Susan Sklar, manager of education and outreach for the Alzheimer’s Association of the Greater Illinois Chapter, will speak, and a light lunch will be served.

Will Alzheimer’s Bankrupt Medicare & Medicaid?

Alzheimer’s is the most expensive medical condition in America, and it is threatening to bankrupt Medicare, Medicaid, and the life savings of millions of Americans. As the life expectancy for Americans increases, our health span, particularly our brain span, is failing to keep up.

Michael James on art, poetry and the caregiving experience

In 2015 New Bedford native Michael James – an internationally recognized textile artist now based in Lincoln, Nebraska – debuted a collection of new works at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln campus. This collection of non-traditional quilts represented his attempt, as a caregiver, to negotiate the psychic and emotional minefield that is the dementia experience for those suffering from diseases including Alzheimer’s, as well as for their caregivers.

New humanized model enables better characterization of Alzheimer’s pathology

Cells behave differently when removed from their environments, just as cells that develop in cultures do not behave like cells in living creatures. To study the effects of Alzheimer’s disease in a more natural environment, scientists from the lab of professor Bart De Strooper in collaboration with scientists from ULB successfully circumscribed this challenge by transplanting human neural cells into mouse brains containing amyloid plaques, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease.

Global Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostic Market is expected to grow at a CAGR over 10% post 2022

Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostic Market Analysis and Forecast by Type , Diagnostic Test , End Users – 2022 Major Key Players are Eli Lilly and Company , TauRx , Alector LLC , Accera, Inc. , Treventis Corporation , Neuro-Bio Ltd ” PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, February 24, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Market Highlights Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia which causes failure of the functioning of the brain. This disease damages the areas which is responsible for the thinking, problem solving and behavior process.

Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Alzheimer’s

New evidence is strengthening the connection between cognitive decline and air pollutants, which means that if indoor air is left untreated, the majority of people face an increased risk of developing dementia and related disorders. FilterEasy wishes to raise awareness of this connection as indoor air pollutants are drastically reduced by regularly changing pleated, high-quality air filters.

Too much sugar may causes Alzheimer’s

London [UK], Feb. 24 : A diet, high in sugar, could lead to Alzheimers, as a study finds a link between sugar and the brain disease. According to researchers from the University of Bath and King’s College London, this is the first concrete evidence to explain why abnormally high blood sugar levels, or hyperglycaemia, have an impact on cognitive function, reports Telegraph.co.uk.

From Alzheimer’s to autism, nuclear neurology could launch revolution …

When applied to the brain, nuclear medicine techniques reveal critical information about the progression of the most devastating diseases, from Alzheimer’s to traumatic brain injury. Just last week, Nature published research showing brain imaging might be able to help diagnose autism in infants as young as 6 months old, an advance that would represent extraordinary progress in more effectively treating the disease.

Walk for Alzheimer’s

The event is Canada’s largest fundraiser for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and takes place in 22 B.C. communities on May 7. Each walk is dedicated to an honouree someone who has been affected by dementia. This year, Vernon is honouring all Vernon volunteers.

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ALZHEIMER’S FAMILY CAREGIVER WORKSHOPS: Home Instead Senior Care will hold free Alzheimer’s Family Caregiver workshops from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, at Home Instead Senior Care office, 269 Bennett St., Luzerne. The workshops will help participants learn how to communicate with their loved one, manage difficult behaviors, and understand behavioral and cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s disease

Although the prevalence of dementia continues to increase worldwide, incidence in the western world might have decreased as a result of better vascular care and improved brain health. Alzheimer’s disease, the most prevalent cause of dementia, is still defined by the combined presence of amyloid and tau, but researchers are gradually moving away from the simple assumption of linear causality as proposed in the original amyloid hypothesis.

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The Alzheimer’s Association is continuing its tireless efforts to provide support services for sufferers of the disease, and to raise awareness and funds in 2017 with two spring events, and research collaboration with the University of Cyprus. A musical evening will be held on Wednesday, March 1 at Sotira Municipality Theatre to raise funds for the association’s voluntary services, which include paying for a qualified nurse to visit dementia and Alzheimer’s patients in the Famagusta district, and funding the Association’s free Support Centre and Sensory Room.

EXCHANGE: Sensory stimuli calm residents with Alzheimer’s

In this Jan. 19, 2017 photo, Rebecca Perkins, right, brings her mother, Catherine Whitaker, into the sensory room in the Meadows Mennonite Retirement Community in Meadows, Ill. The room includes projected light effects, a musical water bed and a host of textured wall pieces and other features designed to help residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia hold onto reality.

Town to hear of rise in dementia cases

The number of people diagnosed with dementia in the Central Okanagan has more than doubled since 2002, Lake Country council will hear next week. The Alzheimer Society says almost 3,500 people in the greater Kelowna area were living with dementia in 2013.

Alzheimer’s Walk wants you

Penticton residents can join a team to participate in the Investors Group Walk for Alzheimer’s and show their support for people who face dementia. The event is Canada’s largest fundraiser for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and takes in 21 communities across B.C. on Sunday, May 7. The walk is a fun and family-friendly event and is unique to each community.

Merck halts late-stage trial of promising Alzheimera s drug

Drug company Merck said Tuesday it’s halting the late-stage trial of its promising Alzheimer’s drug verubecestat, after an independent study found that it had “virtually no chance” of working. It comes just three months after Eli Lilly announced that it was ending the clinical trial of its Alzheimer’s drug solanezumab, after patients taking it demonstrated no signs of improvement compared to those taking a placebo.