Southport: Work Starts On Phase Two Of "The Uk's Most Advanced Dementia Care ...
7 Sep 2010 at 8:00am
Work has started on Phase Two of what has already been hailed as the UK's most advanced new dementia care facility, Birch Abbey , Southport. Just weeks after the "new" £5 million Birch Abbey opened in Alexandra Road, Southport, Dan Lingard, chief executive of the centre's owner, iPersonally, gave the go-ahead to demolish the original building which will be replaced by a further extension...
Men Are More Likely To Develop Mild Cognitive Impairment Than Women - Alzheim...
7 Sep 2010 at 8:00am
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may affect more men than women research published in the journal Neurology claims. The study of 2,050 people aged 70-89 living in Olmstead County, Minnesota found MCI was 1.5 times higher in men than women with 19 percent of men having MCI compared to 14 percent of women...
Dementia Research Receives £1.5 Million Boost, UK
6 Sep 2010 at 9:00am
Research that could take scientists a step closer to discovering the cause of Alzheimer's and a study on how to improve care for people with dementia in hospitals are two of nine projects announced. The nine research projects have been made possible following a £1.5 million grant jointly from Alzheimer's Society and the Bupa Foundation...
Cancer Drug Model Could Be A Potential Treatment For Alzheimer's - Alzheimer'...
3 Sep 2010 at 12:00pm
Treatments modelled on the cancer drug Gleevec could potentially prevent the formation of amyloid plaques - one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease according to a study. Treatments modelled on the cancer drug Gleevec could potentially prevent the formation of amyloid plaques - one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease according to a study published in the journal Nature...
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Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease, is the most common cause of dementia and characterised clinically by progressive intellectual deterioration together with declining activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes. The most striking early symptom is memory loss (amnesia), usually manifest as minor forgetfulness that becomes steadily denser with illness progression, with relative preservation of older memories. As the disorder progresses, cognitive (intellectual) impairment extends to the domains of language (aphasia), coordinated movement (apraxia), recognition (agnosia) and those functions (such as decision-making and planning) closely related to the frontal lobe of the brain, reflecting extension of the underlying pathological process.
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