Advice Why I enjoy languages: How can learning or brushing up on a language help us to stay well? We ask people about the different ways they keep healthy and well, whether they have dementia or not. This time, we hear about language learning. 01 April 2020 0
Advice Why I enjoy games and puzzles: How can playing games and doing puzzles help us to stay well? We ask about the different ways people keep healthy and well, whether they have dementia or not. This time, we hear how games and puzzles help six readers. 31 January 2020 0
News UEA's £1 million project launch to monitor ex-footballers for early signs of dementia - Alzheimer's Society comment Researchers at the University of East Anglia are crowd-funding a new project to test former professional football players for early signs of dementia.
Advice 5 New Year’s resolutions to help reduce your risk of dementia Here are five things you can do to help lower your chances of developing dementia, with illustrations by multi-award winning cartoonist Tony Husband. 02 January 2020 23
Advice Why I go walking: How can walking help us to stay well? We ask about the different ways you keep healthy and well, whether you have dementia or not. This time, we hear how walking helps five readers. 28 November 2019 0
Research Steps to prevent memory loss Could walking up to 9,000 steps per day reduce the brain damage caused by dementia years before symptoms begin? 11 September 2019 4
Research Women and dementia - new insights Worldwide, women with dementia outnumber men two to one, but biomedical research is only now beginning to investigate why this is the case. 11 September 2019 1
Research Can a healthier lifestyle reduce your risk of dementia? New research from an international team of dementia researchers, led by Exeter Medical School, has found that following a few simple lifestyle choices may help to prevent dementia – particularly in people who have a higher genetic risk of developing the condition. Find out what this means for you. 16 July 2019 5
News Healthy lifestyle may offset genetic risk of dementia – Alzheimer’s Society comment New research has highlighted that living a healthy lifestyle may help offset a person’s genetic risk of dementia.
Research Mining a common food compound, Epicatechin, for a new Alzheimer’s disease treatment Research project: Mining the (-)-epicatechin metabolome for AD therapeutics
Research ‘Use it or lose it’: What’s the truth in dementia? Research project: Cognitive reserve and dementia incidence
Research Report: Is there a link between air pollution and dementia? Research has linked air pollution to a wide range of health problems, including dementia. Alzheimer's Society invited a panel of experts to analyse the evidence of this emerging risk factor. 05 June 2019 1
