All GPs to have dementia training

PA, The Independent,
Monday, 22 December 2008
Every GP will be trained to spot the first signs of dementia under plans to provide sufferers with a better quality of life, the Government said today.
“Memory clinics” will also be set up in every town as places where patients can get treatment and support to live their lives [...]

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Vitamin B12 may protect brain

By: PA, The Independent
A key vitamin found in meat, fish and milk may help protect the brain as it ages, researchers said.
Vitamin B12 could help stop the brain shrinking – possibly preventing memory loss in older people and dementia.
A study of 107 people aged 61 to 87 found that those with lower vitamin B12 [...]

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Things you can do to reduce the risk of dementia

Seven ways to a healthy brain
People are living longer so Alzheimer’s disease is becoming more common. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk of dementia;
By: Amy Fenton, The Independent
Tuesday, 27 May 2008.
It is estimated that, by 2025, more than a million people in Britain will suffer from Alzheimer’s. [...]

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Mediterranean diet cuts risk of diabetes

By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Friday, 30 May 2008
The Mediterranean diet, with abundant quantities of virgin olive oil, provides strong protection against diabetes, a study has shown.
The diet, which includes high quantities of fruit, vegetables and wholegrain pulses and cereals is already known to protect against cardiovascular disease and, according to some research, against [...]

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TWO year old boy with DEMENTIA …

Taylor Smith, from Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, has been diagnosed with Niemann-Pick Type C, also known as Children’s Alzheimer’s.
Stephanie O’Hara, 22, Taylor’s mother, described the disease as like “living with a timebomb”.
She said:………….
 
The disease means that the toddler is likely to develop signs of dementia before he becomes a teenager, although the symptoms can appear at [...]

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Preventing falls

BMJ 2008;336:130-133 (19 January), by S Gates et al.
Evidence that multifactorial fall prevention programmes in primary care, community, or emergency care settings are effective in reducing the number of fallers or fall related injuries is limited. Data were insufficient to assess fall and injury rates.

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Improve dementia services, says Public Accounts Committee

News by Zosia Kmietowicz – BMJ, 25 January 2008
Services for people with dementia should be accorded the same priority as services for cancer and coronary heart disease, the public health spending watchdog for England has said.

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Survival times in people with dementia

Jing Xie and colleagues – 10 January 2008 BMJ
In a large population based sample from England and Wales, survival after the estimated onset of dementia was 4.6 years for women and 4.1 years for men.
In caring for people with dementia, the focus should be on what can be done rather than on the [...]

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OBESITY INCREASES DEMENTIA RISK

BMJ 2005;330 (11 June):
Obesity in middle adulthood increases the risk of dementia later in life, independently if you have other medical problems.
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ALZHEIMER AND DONEPEZIL

Janice Hopkins Tanne; BMJ  2007;335:226 (4 August).

Patients with severe Alzheimer’s disease who are living at home with family care givers and are treated with donepezil stabilise or decline more slowly than patients given placebo, according to a multinational, randomised, placebo controlled trial published in Neurology (2007;69:459-69).
North American researchers were suspicious of the decision by the UK [...]

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