Oncology & Cancer
Dementia tied to hormone-blocking prostate cancer treatment
Alzheimer's disease may be a risk for older prostate cancer patients given hormone-blocking treatment, a large, U.S. government-funded analysis found.
Jul 5, 2019
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News tagged with advanced dementia
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Study hard and you might lower your chances of dementia
Every year hundreds of elderly students gather in Toronto for convocation, in-person and online, anxiously awaiting their diplomas. Some are in their nineties; some have dementia.
Nov 1, 2018
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Health
Proxies less likely to use interventions when patients are close to death
Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) have discovered that to begin with, proxies are a fairly accurate judge of the length of life left for their loved one with advanced dementia. Secondly, ...
May 29, 2018
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Health
Nursing home residents with advanced dementia have lower mortality rate with hip surgery
Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research and Brown University have conducted the first study to examine outcomes in nursing home residents with advanced dementia and hip fracture. They discovered ...
May 7, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
'Aggressive' new advance directive would let dementia patients refuse food
Treading into ethically and legally uncertain territory, a New York end-of-life agency has approved a new document that lets people stipulate in advance that they don't want food or water if they develop severe dementia.
Apr 6, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
People with dementia fail to get specialist care despite great need
People suffering in the late stages of dementia receive most of their healthcare from GPs or emergency services rather than from specialist health care professionals, despite them having complex needs, researchers at UCL ...
Sep 19, 2017
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New communication technique helps people with dementia
People with advanced dementia could be helped to interact through a non-verbal communication technique known as 'Adaptive Interaction', researchers at the University of St Andrews have discovered.
Aug 4, 2017
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Neuroscience
Evidence of brain damage found in former soccer players
Evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a potential cause of dementia caused by repeated blows to the head, has been found in the brains of former association football (soccer) players examined at the UCL Queen ...
Feb 14, 2017
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Use of feeding tubes decreases among nursing home residents with advanced dementia
In a study appearing in the August 16 issue of JAMA, Susan L. Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H., of Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues examined feeding tube insertion rates ...
Aug 16, 2016
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Distinguishing differences in dementia using brain scans
Neuroscientist Anne Hafkemeijer is able to distinguish two different forms of dementia using advanced imaging techniques. This is the first step towards early recognition of dementia in patients on the basis of brain networks.
May 25, 2016
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