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Not exact matches
Ecclesiastical stated: «When presented with a list of services offered by churches around the country such as food banks, elderly support
groups, parish nursing and
dementia support, the
research found that more than half (54 per cent) of those surveyed were unaware of the services their own local church provided.»
Other conditions can contribute to
dementia as well, says Eric B. Larson, executive director of the
Group Health
Research Institute in Seattle.
His
group is
researching ways to give people with
dementia unobtrusive reminders that they need to take pills, for example, or need to eat.
Research team member David Powell, PhD, compared the brain scans of three
groups of volunteers: persons with Down syndrome but no
dementia, persons with Down syndrome and
dementia, and a healthy control
group.
RAND's latest
dementia research, which builds on earlier work, included interviews with key representatives of national, state and local stakeholder
groups.