CPN || Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer’s may be declining in U.S. and Germany

Posted on: 15/07/2014 - 22:00

COPENHAGEN – The incidence of Alzheimer’s disease appears to be declining in the United States and may be following a similar positive trend in Germany as well. An analysis of the ongoing Framingham...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Rising projection of Alzheimer’s cases stems mainly from better reporting

Posted on: 15/07/2014 - 18:55

COPENHAGEN – Researchers appear to be tracking contradictory trends in the global incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease. There’s no doubt that both are declining in the United...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Smelling test makes progress in identifying preclinical Alzheimer’s

Posted on: 14/07/2014 - 18:20

COPENHAGEN – A test that measures how well patients recognize scents was highly correlated with progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease as well as neurodegeneration...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Avoid these seven risk factors and slash Alzheimer’s risk

Posted on: 25/04/2014 - 20:40

ORLANDO – Up to half of all cases of Alzheimer’s disease are attributable to seven modifiable risk factors – including depression, Dr. Kristine Yaffe asserted in her 2014 AAGP Distinguished Scientist...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Memory-disorder care program costs little but saves much

Posted on: 15/04/2014 - 20:00

WASHINGTON – A collaborative care program that supports both Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers saved an Indiana health care system more than $1 million during its initial yearlong test period. The...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Many late-life hospitalizations and ED visits could be avoidable

Posted on: 10/04/2014 - 15:15

WASHINGTON – During the last year of life for community-dwelling elders, up to three-fourths of hospital visits might have been avoidable. Nursing home residents also were susceptible to potentially...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Antipsychotics’ risk in dementia revised upward

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 05:01

ORLANDO – The mortality risk associated with prescription of antipsychotics or valproic acid for behavioral disturbances in patients with dementia is considerably greater than previously estimated,...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Plasma biomarker panel predicts amnestic MCI or Alzheimer’s

Posted on: 10/03/2014 - 15:00

Researchers have identified a panel of 10 lipid metabolites that can predict the development of either amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease within 2-3 years with 90% sensitivity...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Alzheimer’s treatment requires ‘multiple shots on goal’ approach

Posted on: 25/02/2014 - 20:15

LAS VEGAS – With the exception of memantine, about 30 clinical trials of agents intended to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease have failed in the past decade. "We’ve attacked every...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Two Alzheimer’s immunotherapy drugs flunk in four studies

Posted on: 22/01/2014 - 22:00

Two investigational Alzheimer’s immunotherapies failed to show any benefit in a series of phase III trials comprising more than 4,000 patients. Neither bapineuzumab, which targets soluble and...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

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