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Researchers do not fully understand why older Latino and black adults are at increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Genetics, level of education, coincidence of chronic disease, like diabetes, and stress are all suspected factors, as is an inactive lifestyle and poor nutrition.
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Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia, affects about 5.5 million Americans – a number that’s expected to balloon to 13.8 million by 2050.
As the incidence of people living with the neurodegenerative disease has gone up, the death rate has as well.
Between 1999 and 2014, the rate of deaths related to Alzheimer’s in the US increased 55 percent, to 25.4 deaths per 100,000 people, according to data released Friday from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
But there is also good news:
A Global Plan on Dementia has been adopted by the WHO, this is a big deal!
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Researchers urge FDA to lower the bar — a little — on Alzheimer’s drug approvals
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Becoming a community educator for the Alzheimer’s Association will allow you to help local families who are seeking information about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Knowledge is power, and community educators are key to helping the organization touch the lives of more families across Wisconsin.
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According to The Scientific American:
“A Rare Success against Alzheimer’s,” by researchers Miia Kivipelto and Krister Håkansson, the future may not be quite so grim. In fact, studies show that reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia may include factors as simple as “good diet, exercise, an active social life and the achievement of higher educational levels.”
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Researchers have used the MAX IV synchrotron in Lund – the strongest of its kind in the world – to produce images that predate the formation of toxic clumps of beta-amyloid, the protein believed to be at the root of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Forget all our wars and conflicts, let’s focus on what really kills lots of people!
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Now there is a draft global plan to fight Alzheimer’s. Could all government heads please pay attention and do something with this? Non partisan, all for the good of the world!
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Like the people in this story who were falsely told they had Alzheimer’s at a very young age.
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Fillings could be consigned to history after scientists discovered that a drug already trialled in Alzheimer’s patients can encourage tooth regrowth and repair cavities.
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No this is not about people losing their jobs due to developing Alzheimer’s, this is a link to the story about employees from the research companies possibly losing their jobs as a result of failed trials.
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Great story in the Huffington Post about a photographer who captured Alzheimer in all it facets in pictures,
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What a lovely story if it had not such a sad beginning. Here is an eight-year-old who works to get Alzheimer’s under control.
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Charles Ogletree, author, activist and Harvard law professor, who taught both Barack and Michelle Obama, revealed that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease but that it has been a “blessing.”
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You can now try the first VR app on android to experience how Alzheimer’s would look and feel!
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We send you some tips on how to participate in the link for today.
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Alzheimer’s may result from the brain’s effort to fight off infections. While that hypothesis is controversial and highly speculative at this point, it could dramatically alter the way researchers and doctors work to treat and prevent the degenerative disease.
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The main character backed out of the movie and the Alzheimer’s association plus a member of congress has now spoken out against the making of the comedy movie about Alzheimer’s.
Here is what we know about the plot of the movie:
the film opens at the start of the then-president’s second term, when he falls into dementia. An ambitious intern is tasked with convincing the commander-in-chief that he is an actor playing the president in a movie.
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Will Ferrell will play President Ronald Reagan in “Reagan,” a political satire written by Mike Rosolio, whose script was voted to the 2015 Black List of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays.
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No I stick with the saying “when it sounds too good to be trueit usually is….”
But read the post in our link for today andjudge for yourself.
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What a cool initiative, Alzheimer’s support on your license plate, I know I would get one immediately. They are working on it in Kansas!
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