RAND's
latest dementia research, which builds on earlier work, included interviews with key representatives of national, state and local stakeholder groups.
Not exact matches
Participation in activities that promote mental activity, and moderate physical activity in middle age, may help protect against the development of Alzheimer's disease and
dementia in
later life, according to new
research reported today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference ® 2014 (AAIC ® 2014) in Copenhagen.
Although extensive
research now suggests major head injury increases
dementia risk in
later life, scientists do not know the biological changes that cause this effect.
More
research is needed to answer several questions not addressed by the new findings, such as specifically what happens during a TBI that might contribute to
dementia later in life for some individuals, what other factors play a role, and who is most susceptible.
Middle - aged people who experience temporary blood pressure drops that often cause dizziness upon standing up may be at an increased risk of developing cognitive decline and
dementia 20 years
later, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
research suggests.
Although much
research has examined traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a possible risk factor for
later life
dementia from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known regarding how TBI influences the rate of age - related cognitive change.
One of the main objectives of the course is to encourage
research into
dementia by strengthening the ties to the
latest scientific findings.»
The
latest research, including my own work, indicates that a poor diet causes the loss of key structural and functional elements in the brain, with an aggressively higher vulnerability to brain aging and
dementia.
Previous studies have found unusually high rates of mental - function problems in former NFL players (especially those with a history of concussions), while a large body of
research has linked being overweight or obese to a higher risk of
dementia later in life.
The
research is clear that for young and middle - aged adults, untreated hypertension appears to increase the risk of developing
dementia later in life.
«There is a lot of evidence that [people] with cognitive decline are at highest risk of
later developing
dementia, so it is likely that preventing or delaying cognitive decline today will help reduce risk of
dementia tomorrow,» says Grodstein, who was not involved in the
research but wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
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One of the most compelling reasons to make reading as accessible as possible for the aged may be the
research that has shown that the symptoms of Alzheimer's and
dementia, which can not be reversed or stopped entirely at this point, might be slowed through constant mental exercise, such as reading, and through a return to activities that the patient once found enjoyable, again, such as the enjoyment of books that have been off - limits as of
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