Sentences with phrase «take on dementia»

Individual Giving Officer (Gaming) Let's take on dementia together Our client is the UK's leading dementia charity.

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B.C.'s New Democrats are calling on the B.C. Liberal government to fulfill their promise to take action on dementia and improve care and safety for those living with the disease.

On a recent visit, I brought him a model airplane I found in their master suite closet; dementia and Parkinson's are slowly taking their toll, but he remembered it and smiled.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Her manifesto is full of gruel served on silver platters, best summed up by how the headline proposal for «workers» rights» turned out to be the right to take a year's unpaid leave to care for a relative - presumably to avoid the dementia tax.

The senior author Dr Sean Sweeney, of the Department of Biology, University of York, said: «These findings shed light on the events occurring in neurons as dementia takes hold.

They also work with the family caregivers of those with dementia on implementing caregiver stress prevention strategies such as attending monthly support groups, creating crisis plans, taking regular weekly time off from caregiving tasks, and enhancing their self - management and problem solving capacity related to their loved one's dementia symptoms.

Taking this as the starting point, researchers from public research body INSERM and the University of Montpellier in France and from Imperial College in London, estimated the impact eliminating these risk factors (they included the genetic one for reference) might make on reducing rates of dementia, should no effective treatment be found.

Compared to people taking sulfonylureas, those on metformin had a 20 percent decreased risk of developing dementia, according to the study.

A number of factors relating to where someone lives could play a role in how many people go on to develop dementia and this study did not take differences in access to healthcare across the country into account, nor does it look at how financially well - off people are in these different areas — a factor that is closely interwoven with many aspects of our health.

Neurologist and Researcher Dr. Zoe Arvanitakis was one of the scientists to take part in the study, and she commented that» Both large and small vessel diseases have effects on dementia and thinking abilities, independently of one another, and independently of the common causes of dementia such as Alzheimer's pathology and strokes.»

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I learned what to expect and I educated myself on how to prepare her and myself for when the symptoms of dementia started to take over her life.

This site is funded and maintained entirely on a voluntary basis and contains over 12,000 photographs in a list of 2081 species of Lepidoptera taken by Early stage Alzheimer's and related dementia symptoms are mild and the main role of a caregiver is support.

Taken together, and reflecting on all the elements of the story, «Dementia 13» defines itself as a satisfying horror mystery that laid the groundwork for future greatness for it's young director Francis (minus the Ford) Coppola.

Mond holds tight on James as he spends his days living like a drunken, self - absorbed libertine, and his nights taking care of his mom as she slips into fevered dementia.

Georges appears to be intent on finding a way out of the life that has imprisoned his body and is now slowly taking his mind through dementia.

Barely keeping his practice afloat, Mike takes on the guardianship of an old man suffering dementia plus the $ 1,500 a month he retains after placing old Mr. Poplar (Burt Young) in a home.

In Ether One, players take on the role of a «Restorer», charged with piecing together the confused memories of a 69 year - old dementia sufferer called Jean.

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