by admin | Nov 15, 2024 | Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia
Abidemi Otaiku, University of Birmingham We spend a third of our lives asleep. And a quarter of our time asleep is spent dreaming. So, for the average person alive in 2022, with a life expectancy of around 73, that clocks in at just over six years of dreaming. Yet,...
by admin | Nov 8, 2024 | Dementia, Medical Research
Rebecca Atkinson, Anglia Ruskin University and Ming-Hung Hsu, Anglia Ruskin University Music is woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. Whether it’s lifting our spirits, pushing us to run faster or soothing us to sleep, we can all recognise its power. So it’s no...
by admin | Sep 6, 2024 | Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia
Donald Jurivich, University of North Dakota I cringed recently while driving to the clinic where I specialize in geriatric medicine when I heard a young radio announcer refer to old people as “wiggy,” a pejorative for wacky. As a doctor who has extensively researched...
by admin | Aug 30, 2024 | Aging, Dementia
Eric B. Larson, University of Washington and Laura Gitlin, Drexel University Nearly half of all dementia cases could be delayed or prevented altogether by addressing 14 possible risk factors, including vision loss and high cholesterol. That is the key finding of a new...
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