Tag: cognitive impairment

Dementia Risk Quadrupled in People with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Dementia Risk Quadrupled in People with Mild Cognitive Impairment In a long-term, large-scale population-based study of individuals aged 55 years or older in the general population researchers found that those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) had a four-fold increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease (AD) compared to...

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Age Alone Does Not Determine Decision-Making Ability

The MetLife Study of Decision-Making Potential, one of the first to investigate the connection between specific components of cognitive health and the continued ability to make logically consistent decisions, identified factors that may inhibit or increase the risk of poor decisions in the 50 to 79 age group.åÊ Those in...

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Aspirin May Preserve Brain Function in Elderly Women

inSA new study from researchers inåÊSweden has shown that aspirin may help women maintain brain function. Researchers studied approximately 700 women, at least 70 years old. About 600 of the women were considered to be at high risk for a heart attack. About 20% of them were taking aspirin during...

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Bingo Benefits You Never Realized

@Greg Ceo Bingo! Who knew the benefits? Researchers have found that high-contrast, large bingo cards boost thinking and playing skills for people with cognitive difficulties and visual perception problems produced by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Their findings published in the journal Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition show that...

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