Dakim Rolls Out Product to Help Seniors Combat Memory Loss & Dementia.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-8 August 2008-Dakim Rolls Out Product to Help Seniors Combat Memory Loss & Dementia(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Dakim announced that it has posted sample exercises from its [m]Power Cognitive Fitness System online to illustrate its approach to helping seniors protect themselves against dementia....

Imaging and measurements predict status of ad dementia.
CHICAGO -- A combination of specialized brain imaging and cerebrospinal amyloid [[beta].sub.42] measurements powerfully predicts the presence--and absence--of Alzheimer's-type dementia. For several years researchers have focused on A[[beta].sub.42] in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as a possible biomarker of Alzheimer's disease (AD): Higher levels indicate the protein is still...

Cognitive Fitness System Helps Counter Memory Loss & Dementia.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-22 August 2008-Cognitive Fitness System Helps Counter Memory Loss & Dementia(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Dakim announced that its [m]Power Cognitive Fitness System has now been adopted by more than 150 senior living communities to help residents protect themselves against dementia. In...

The Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia in the context of the Australian aged care funding instrument: a literature review.
ABSTRACT A new funding instrument has been introduced into residential aged care known as the Aged Care Funding Instrument. As part of these requirements the assessment of depression for all residents admitted to an Australian aged care facility has been implemented using the Cornell Scale of Depression...

Antidementia drugs may prolong life in Alzheimer's patients: cause and effect are still not proven.
CHICAGO -- Continuous use of antidementia drugs is associated with a decreased risk of death in Alzheimer's patients. Specifically, those who took the medications for more than 70% of the time since being diagnosed with dementia lived an average of 3 years longer than did those who took them...

Late-life low blood pressure associated with Alzheimer's.
WASHINGTON--Low blood pressure correlated with Alzheimer's disease among 3,734 elderly men, but the dementia appeared to be attributable to the presence of other chronic diseases and not hypotension itself. Other studies have found that hypertension in midlife can predict dementia, but the impact of late-life blood pressure...

Get your starbucks prescription, stat!
Heavyweight championship or not, if we Americans do eat more goodies, we should wash them down with coffee, a University of North Dakota study tells us. At least we should if we want to remember the pleasure of that consumption--because coffee apparently cuts the risk of dementia by blocking...

Antidementia drugs may prolong patient lifespan.
CHICATO -- Continuous use of antidementia drugs is associated with a decreased risk of death in Alzheimer's patients. Specifically, those who took the medications for more than 70% of the time since being diagnosed with dementia lived an average of 3 years longer than did those who took them...

Larger social networks have a protective influence on the cognitive functioning of older women.
Larger social networks have a protective influence on the cognitive functioning of older women. Researchers recruited 2,249 participants aged 78 or above from a longitudinal study of hormone replacement therapy and dementia in older women. Researchers conducted annual telephone interviews until the women either developed dementia or died. Using...