$2.9 million study will seek ways to detect dementia earlier
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 04, 2019
Researchers from Florida State University will use a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health to try to discover earlier ways to detect and treat age-related...
Playing online games can improve older adults’ ability to multitask cognitively
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 21, 2019
Adults in their 70s and 80s are able to improve their ability to multitask cognitively as well as people in their 20s and 30s by playing online video games, according to a newly published study in Proceedings...
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Alzheimer’s vaccine shows promise in study
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 12, 2019
A vaccine developed by University of New Mexico researchers has shown promise in preventing the formation of the tau tangles in the brain and someday potentially could prevent the cognitive decline typically...
ADL, cognitive needs higher for home health recipients in assisted living than in other settings
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Lois A. Bowers
May 30, 2019
Assisted living residents who receive services from home health agencies are more likely to have cognitive and activity of daily living impairments than people receiving home care in other settings, according...
Morning exercise can improve older adults’ decision-making throughout day
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Lois A. Bowers
May 02, 2019
Here’s information your residents and employees can use: Moderate-intensity exercise in the morning improves cognitive performance, such as decision-making, in older adults throughout the day compared...
Moving more may help older adults maintain memory, study finds
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 18, 2019
Staying active in old age may help memory and thinking, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Study finds common use of antipsychotics ineffective for delirium
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Lois A. Bowers
Oct 23, 2018
Two antipsychotic drugs commonly used to treat delirium did not benefit critically ill patients who took part in a recent clinical study funded by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes...
CDC: 14% of those 75+ have early symptom of Alzheimer’s
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Lois A. Bowers
Jul 17, 2018
Fourteen percent of adults aged 75 or more years have subjective cognitive decline, one of the earliest noticeable symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, according to new data from the Centers for Disease...
Protect vision to help protect cognition: study
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 29, 2018
Maintaining good eyesight may help mitigate an age-related decline in cognition, according to a new study in JAMA Ophthalmology.