A care home situated in Wiltshire is piloting an innovative new scheme which has high hopes of improving the symptoms of its residents affected by dementia. Coombe End Court residential care home has recreated 1950s style rooms which give residents the opportunity to relive youthful memories. The concept was actually dreamt up by care home read more »

A Birmingham care home is keeping a range of outdoor animals including chickens and goats in a bid to improve the lives of its residents. Animal assisted therapy already appears in the NHS guidelines as a form of dementia intervention thought to help depression and anxiety, and a three year pilot project is now taking read more »

A recent study has found that people who have low levels of vitamin B12 could be more prone to developing alzheimer’s later on in life. The vitamin is thought to protect individuals against Alzheimer’s by reducing levels of an amino acid (homocysteine) in the blood that has been linked to the disease. Individuals will all read more »

A report has recently revealed that the costs associated with dementia will amount to more than 1% of the world’s gross domestic product this year at £388bn. This amount is likely to dramatically increase over the next few years as dementia is expected to double by 2030, and more than triple by 2050, posing the read more »

Following their 2009 leaflet delivery campaign which reached 80,000 people, the Alzheimer’s Society is sending leaflets and posters to 10,000 GP surgeries throughout the UK and Northern Ireland in a bid to promote early diagnosis. Their previous campaign saw one in five of those who requested further information receive a dementia diagnosis and with experts read more »

A recent study published in the British Medical Journal has revealed that the prevention of diabetes and depression could have a huge impact on reducing dementia cases, as could increasing education and fruit and vegetable consumption. This new development comes after another study has found many dementia patients are missing out on early treatments as read more »

According to a recent study, Dundee’s strong and distinctive accent could help it’s elderly citizens from developing dementia. Researchers from Abertay University are in the midst of a study looking at whether people who switch between the Dundonian dialect and standard English have less chance of developing mental deterioration in later life. The experts are read more »

During the past decade many studies have been conducted in an endeavour to find out whether education can lower the risk of dementia and have consistently proved this to be true BBC News have reported that a team made up of Finnish and UK researchers have found that those who stay in education for longer read more »

A simple blood test could detect Alzheimer’s 10 years in advance. At the start of this month experts revealed that a very simple and inexpensive blood test could be the key to the early detection of Alzheimer’s and can spot it up to around 10 years before symptoms start to develop. This is a huge read more »

According to recent research being called big-headed is actually not so much of a bad thing, as a new study suggests those with larger heads are better protected in the fight against dementia. Scientists from the Technical University of Munich in Germany found that individuals suffering with Alzheimer’s faired better in memory and thinking skill read more »