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Diet, exercise, brain games, even using your non-dominant hand can help prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

Exercise controls weight and reduces the risk of heart disease and other health conditions — including dementia. “Our older patients can’t usually do more-vigorous activity, but even walking ...

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LEXINGTON Researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging are at the forefront of advancing ...

The tool relies on patient scores ... stock.adobe.com “Dementia is a chronic progressive disease that is irreversible at this point. There’s no meaningful treatment that can reverse the ...

There have been advancements in drug treatments for dementia, but there is no cure. Drugs such as Biogen Inc. (BIIB) and Eisai Co.'s (ESAIY) Leqembi, for example, slow cognitive decline in the ...

It’s best to keep the dementia patient’s surroundings as simple as possible, according to Dr. Tina Sadarangani, an NYU professor, board-certified geriatric nurse practitioner, and founder of ...

She believed that people with dementia were desperate to connect ... to a drugstore and soda fountain with her “best friend,” a patient with “velvety eyes” whose teeth were black or ...

IT’S CALLED THE HAPPINESS PROGRAM, AND IT’S DESIGNED TO HELP PATIENTS WITH ALZHEIMER’S AND DEMENTIA. HERE TO TELL US MORE IS JILL SCHUETZ GERIATRIC CLINICAL COORDINATOR AT JUPITER MEDICAL ...