Category Archives: Treatment

Become a Dementia Friend

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The UK government has launched the Dementia Friends scheme, which has been adapted from a similar program in Japan that recruited three million volunteers.

Meanwhile about a million people have been trained as Dementia Friend.

Dementia signs

  • Struggling to remember recent events
  • Problems following conversations
  • Forgetting the names of friends or objects
  • Repeating yourself
  • Problems with thinking or reasoning
  • Confusion in familiar places

Sessions in workplaces and town halls across the country will explain what dementia is, what it is like to have the condition and what people can do to help if they meet someone with the symptoms.

Read all about it HERE

Your Pet and Alzheimer

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When you care for someone with Alzheimer it may be a good idea to take your pet along when you visit them.

The person with Alzheimer needs to like pets though but there are lots of benefits of letting the patient have contact with a pet. Read up about it in our link for today.

Read all about it HERE

New molecule identified that may delay Onset Alzheimer

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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a crucial molecule that could put the brakes on the damage to the brain:

Samuel Cohen, who led the study at the University of Cambridge, said: “The big advantage is that we haven’t just come up with a drug and not really understood what it is doing. We’ve come up with a general strategy that could work.”

Read all about it HERE

The Colombia connection for Alzheimer

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We wrote about the testing done in Colombia about three years ago HERE and highlighted the article in the NYtimes HERE .

In our link below a TV documentary with an update on this large family with Alzheimer and the mutation in the disease that may yet hold the key to a solution. The study is planned to be concluded in 2020 so nothing goes fast with this horrible disease but at least there is optimism about a potential new path for finding a cure.

Read all about it HERE