Dementia Risk Quadrupled in People with Mild Cognitive Impairment – Video
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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 AlzheimerÛªs disease (AD) compared to...
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...
Aspirin May Preserve Brain Function in Elderly Women (VIDEO)
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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...
Low Physical Activity in Youth May Mean Increased Dementia Rates in the Future (VIDEO)
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Low Physical Activity in TodayÛªs Youth May Mean Increased Dementia Rates in the Future
@kidsfitnessmiami Women who are physically active at any point over their life have lower risk of cognitive impairment in late-life compared to those who are inactive, but teenage physical activity appears to be most important, according to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. There is growing evidence that people...
Bingo Benefits You Never Realized (VIDEO)
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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...