
Alzheimers Care Colorado Blog
When Alzheimers is part of your life, whether personally or with someone you love, it’s important to have resources to turn to, and that’s why we created the Alzheimers Care Colorado blog. Let us be a resource for basics on caring for a loved one with Alzheimers, understanding your options, and how to manage this illness.
How Seniors Can Get a Better Night’s Sleep
By: Karen Weeks of Elder Wellness (elderwellness.net) Most older adults need an average of seven to nine hours of sleep each night, yet a poll of 1,065 seniors between the ages 65 and 80 revealed that one in three individuals had problems getting adequate shuteye....
Getting lost: Why older people might lose their way
Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease (DZNE) have found a possible explanation for the difficulty in spatial orientation experienced sometimes by elderly people. In the brains of older adults, they detected an unstable activity in an area that...
Being unaware of memory loss predicts Alzheimer’s disease
While memory loss is an early symptom of Alzheimer's disease, its presence doesn't mean a person will develop dementia. A new study at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found a clinically useful way to predict who won't develop Alzheimer's disease,...
Population of Americans with Alzheimer’s will more than double by 2060
47 million Americans already demonstrate some evidence of susceptibility to the disease. About 15 million Americans will have either Alzheimer's dementia or mild cognitive impairment by 2060, up from approximately 6.08 million this year, according to a new study by...
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 have found. While those with advanced dementia...
Study: Low Serotonin Levels Linked to Dementia
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Summary: In a study looking at brain scans of people with mild loss of thought and memory ability, researchers report evidence of lower levels of the serotonin transporter -- a natural brain chemical that regulates mood, sleep and...
Are Friends Better for us than Family?
EAST LANSING, Mich. - The power of friendship gets stronger with age and may even be more important than family relationships, indicates new research by a Michigan State University scholar. In a pair of studies involving nearly 280,000 people, William Chopik found...
Alzheimer’s begins before symptoms appear
Alzheimer’s disease begins destroying the brain years before mental deterioration is detected, a new study suggests. This finding means there could be twice the number of people with the neurodegenerative disease in the United States — and worldwide — as currently...
Alzheimer’s disease likely not caused by low body mass index
A new large-scale genetic study found that low body mass index (BMI) is likely not a causal risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, as earlier research had suggested, according to a study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &...
Alzheimer’s risk factors study calls out obesity in midlife
Healthy aging of the brain relies on the health of your heart and blood vessels when you’re younger, a new study reports. People with risk factors for heart disease and stroke in middle age are more likely to have elevated levels of amyloid, a sticky protein known to...