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Educational Attainment Affects the Risk of Dementia

Educational Attainment Affects the Risk of Dementia

Dementia is one of the worst cognitive declines that older adults suffer from. A recent study links the risk of cognitive decline to how much formal education people have received from childhood to early adulthood.
A Promising Blood Test May Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

A Promising Blood Test May Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

American and Swedish experts have discovered a specific protein in the blood that can indicate an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's dementia. The blood test can potentially indicate the risk of developing the disease years before symptoms occur.
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Living Alone in Your 50s and 60s? Dementia Found to Be 30% More Likely: Study

A recent study finds that elderly people living alone are 30% more likely to develop dementia. Experts believe that living alone is associated with increased stress, feelings of loneliness, and lack of cognitive stimulation, which might have contributed to the increasing number of cases.

Women Who Went to School Longer Have Lower Risk of Dementia: New Study

Women who spent long years hitting the books and attending school are less likely to develop memory loss and dementia, researchers of a new study claim. Furthermore, the authors say that Alzheimer's disease might not be in the books for these women with the help of their previous education. Click the link above to learn more.
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Ex-Football Players 3.5x More Likely To Die From Dementia

A new study reveals that former professional football players are three and a half times more likely to die from dementia. This study comes after Jeff Astle died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) attributed to repeated head trauma back in 2002.

Keep Dimentia at Bay with these Three Tips

The older that people get, the more at risk they are of cognitive impairment. (Photo : silviarita) There are more than 45 million people all over the world, suffering from dementia and the numbers are expected to significantly increase by 2030.

A New Type of Dementia Has Been Identified

Millions of people, mostly the elderly, have been diagnosed with a form of dementia An expert called the discovery as the most important dementia finding in years.

Dementia can kill you, but how?

Dementia deaths have more than doubled in the U.S. in less than two decades, a new government report shows.
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