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Dementia healthcare must adapt to tackle global dementia crisis
NEW YORK: A new report from Alzheimer’s Disease International, authored by researchers at King’s College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), reveals that most people with dementia have yet to receive a diagnosis, let alone comprehensive and continuing healthcare…
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DALLAS: An Australian researcher who suggested 30 years ago that a build up of amyloid in the brain could cause Alzheimer’s has been vindicated by a new study.
The results of research has found that when amyloids cluster, they can block synapses and lead to Read More »
Dementia study to develop new treatments and interventions
PHOENIX: The largest Canadian study ever on dementia launches Wednesday with a goal of developing new interventions to slow or halt diseases that affect more than half a million Canadians.
The clinical study on neurodegenerative diseases is being conducted by the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration Read More »
Skilled nursing home review likely to lead to mandatory minimum staffing
HOUSTON: The B.C. government appears to be seriously considering setting mandatory minimum staff levels for skilled nursing homes.
Such a minimum “certainly makes sense,” Daryl Plecas, the parliamentary secretary to the Health minister, told a one-day meeting in Vancouver on Tuesday.