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LONDON (Reuters) - Educated people are better able to cope with the physical effects of dementia, and even one extra year of education can significantly cut the risk of developing the brain-wasting disease, scientists said on Monday. The findings by scientists from Britain and Finland could have important implications for public health at a time when populations in many countries are ...

HONOLULU (Reuters) - Identifying dementia early can cut the cost of care by nearly 30 percent, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, a finding that may reduce the heavy financial burden of the disease on the health care system. They said routine screening that identified patients with early signs of dementia helped cut average healthcare costs by nearly $2,000 per ...

Police in Indiana say three people kept a 65-year-old woman with dementia locked in a tiny room for months while they lived off of her monthly checks. Police in the city of Anderson freed Anna Turner on Thursday from the 8-foot-by-6-foot utility room ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified changes in mouse brains that impair learning, and say the findings mean drugs being developed for some cancers may also help fight age-related diseases like dementia and Alzheimer's. German researchers studying mice at difference ages found that older mice had changes in proteins regulating the genes in their brains -- specifically in a process called ...

Older adults whose spouses have dementia are on average six times more likely to develop the condition than seniors whose partners are not afflicted, according to a study released Wednesday. The danger is several-fold higher for men than women, found the study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dementia is not a disease, but covers a group ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elderly adults with poor vision, particularly untreated vision problems, may have a higher risk of developing dementia than those with better vision, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among 625 older Americans with initially normal cognition, those who said they had poor vision even with corrective lenses were more likely to develop dementia over the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Whether or not a person with advanced dementia winds up with a feeding tube inserted down their throat may have more to do with economic concerns than his or her wishes, suggests a new study out in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). In fact, Dr. Joan M. Teno of Brown University in Providence, Rhode ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Dementia costs Britain 23 billion pounds ($37 billion) a year, more than cancer and heart disease combined, and the number of sufferers is expected to rise nearly 20 percent to over a million by 2025, experts said Wednesday. A study for the Alzheimer's Research Trust (ART) by Oxford University researchers found that the cost of caring for ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two new studies provide more evidence that regular aerobic exercise not only staves off the problems with thinking and memory that often come with age, but it can actually help turn back the clock on brain aging. In one study, researchers found evidence that engaging in moderate physical activity such as brisk walking, swimming, or yoga ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Diabetes may hasten progression to dementia in older people with mild thinking impairment, new research shows. So-called mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, increases a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. But aside from a person's severity of mental impairment, there is currently no way to predict which people ...