Dementia Signs

• Depression or young onset dementia? Here’s how to tell the difference

  For people in their 40s and 50s, Alzheimer’s disease might be misdiagnosed as depression.

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  Sep 14, 2018
  
• Alzheimer’s disease hits women harder than men, especially in this age group

  New research is warning that women who are genetically predisposed to Alzheimer’s disease are most likely to develop the disease during a specific decade of their lives.

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  Aug 31, 2017
  
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• Your trouble with sleeping may put you at risk for Alzheimer’s disease later in life

  New research suggests that a poor night’s sleep doesn’t just make you dreary-eyed the next day – in the long run, disrupted sleep could be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s or other neurological diseases.

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  Jul 12, 2017
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• These 3 lifestyle changes could keep dementia away, study suggests

  If you’re worried about keeping your brain healthy and staving off dementia, new research is pointing to three lifestyle changes you can make.

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  Jun 26, 2017
• There are many faces of Alzheimer’s disease, Canadian society says in new campaign

  On Tuesday, the Alzheimer Society of Canada launched its new awareness campaign. For 2017, it decided to focus on shedding light on the many faces of Alzheimer’s disease.

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  Jan 10, 2017
• The biggest medical breakthroughs of 2016

  While the world grappled with a Zika virus epidemic, steadily climbing rates of dementia and an opioid crisis, scientists worked hard at unravelling health care problems.

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  Dec 27, 2016
• Here’s why Alzheimer’s disease is hard to diagnose in men

  Scientists have been trying to figure out why Alzheimer's disease afflicts women so much more and in a new study they suggest that men are simply underdiagnosed because their symptoms are flying under the radar.

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  Jul 27, 2016
• Canadian-made robot, Ludwig, designed to assess dementia

  A retirement home in north Toronto is preparing to welcome an unusual resident: Ludwig, an artificially intelligent robot.

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  Jul 27, 2016
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• These are the jobs that protect your brain from Alzheimer’s, dementia

  Teachers, lawyers and social workers are just some of the professions that could protect your brain against Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, new research suggests.

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  Jul 26, 2016