A combination of lengthy mandatory minimum prison sentences, increasing numbers of life sentences and reduced opportunities for parole means that prisons are having to care for much higher numbers of aging men and women. Human Rights Watch's report, published January 2012, highlights a number of issues caused by an aging prison population. In the... Read more
A recent message from a reader of Our Alzheimer's asking about the symptoms of Alzheimer's in someone with Down's syndrome (DS) has prompted me to write this Sharepost. It is true that the symptoms are the same as in someone without DS; memory loss, weight loss, apathy, personality changes, loss of conversation skills, increasingly poor mobility... Read more
The news that a major study has found that memory in many people starts to deteriorate from around 45 years of age is worrying. Until now, around 60 years of age tended to been viewed as the age at which the brain begins to lose its sharpness for memory, powers of reasoning and understanding.
The research, called the Whitehall 11 Study, is... Read more
Recently, we received a question about whether pollutants or radon could cause ‘forgetfulness.' As a result I want to throw some light on this very complex area. We often think of symptoms that include changes in memory, memory loss and, in some cases, confusion, as some type of dementia. However there are also many other diseases and... Read more
As the year comes to a close it's tempting to look back and consider the progress (or lack of) that has been made with regard to the understanding and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Every so often something occurs that makes me sit up and pay attention. For example, the line we usually trot out about the risk for Alzheimer's disease is that... Read more
