Falls requiring medical attention tied to later dementia diagnosis
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HealthDay News
Oct 02, 2024
The authors say that the findings warrant cognitive screening after a fall resulting in an emergency department or inpatient encounter.
Seth Rogen, Lauren Miller Rogen want more people to talk about dementia care
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Lois A. Bowers
Sep 30, 2024
Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen are hoping that through their work with Hilarity for Charity and screenings of “Taking Care,” more people will be talking about Alzheimer’s and the caregiving struggles...
Dementia diagnoses up in individuals with acute kidney injury
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Haymarket Media
Sep 05, 2024
Developing AKI was associated with a significantly increased rate of subsequent dementia; the pattern was consistent across dementia types.
Dementia diagnoses drop, but early-onset disease may be increasing among some
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 03, 2024
Two separate studies looking at dementia rates found a drop in diagnoses over time due to higher education and decreased smoking levels but an increase in potential early-onset dementia in Native populations.
Regional variation seen in Alzheimer’s and related dementia diagnosis
Aug 19, 2024
The ADRD-specific diagnosis intensity varies most for Black, Hispanic and youngest subgroups.
Multiple sclerosis linked to lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease pathology
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Haymarket Media
Aug 30, 2024
A lower rate of amyloid-β plasma biomarker positivity was seen in multiple sclerosis patients compared with non-MS controls.
Studies highlight increasing dementia deaths, contributing factors to diagnosis and cognitive decline
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 16, 2024
More people are dying from dementia, and location and demographics are among the factors that may contribute to not only a dementia diagnosis, but also to how quickly someone will experience cognitive...
Government support of dementia caregiving across the continuum important: poll
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 06, 2024
A recent poll of more than 1,000 older adults found they overwhelmingly want the government to support dementia care across the care continuum, including in assisted living settings.
Alzheimer’s prognosis models should expand data sources
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Kristen Fischer
Aug 12, 2024
Integrating data from nursing home electronic health records (EHRs) and claims in addition to the minimum data set (MDS) — data required for nursing home residents — could be better than just relying...
What happens if biomarker tests spot Alzheimer’s before people show symptoms?
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Kristen Fischer
Aug 05, 2024
As of now, no therapy is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for people at risk of Alzheimer’s disease who don’t have symptoms. But blood tests that can spot biomarkers linked to the disease...