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Physical activity of any intensity after a diagnosis of dementia is associated with around a 30% lower risk of death, finds research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Among the patients who experienced a fall, 10.6% were diagnosed with some type of dementia within a year. The study also analyzed data from older adults who experienced an injury from an event ...
Semaglutide medications — such as Ozempic, the popular diabetes drug — have been linked to a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease for certain groups. A new study, which was led by researchers ...
Harmful diagnostic errors may occur for as many as one in every 14 hospital patients receiving medical care, a new study based on a single medical center in the U.S. has found. As many as 85 ...
SMITHFIELD, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Department of Health has temporarily suspended the license of a nursing assistant after she was charged with assaulting a dementia patient earlier this ...
A former Johnson County nursing home employee convicted of raping an 85-year-old resident with dementia was sentenced on Wednesday to just over 17 years in prison. Samuel Muniu Wambugu ...
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Up to 80% of people with Lewy body dementia experience visual hallucinations. These hallucinations are often recurrent and very detailed. Hallucinations of adults, children, or animals are common.
More than 11 million adults in the United States are caring for people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. In addition to memory loss, most people with dementia will ...
If you sell phony stock to dementia patients, you go to jail. If you sell faulty aluminum siding to elderly people, the consumer police come after you and you lose your business because you get ...
And the number of patients scrambling could grow soon to nearly 40,000 because Point32Health, the state’s second-largest insurer, is also at an impasse with a third health system, Tenet ...