Older baby boomers’ top choice of where to live if they were to have dementia is a senior living community, according to the results of a new LeadingAge–NORC poll revealed Monday at the LeadingAge Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. The finding, according to LeadingAge, was one of several from the research that challenge commonly held views of baby boomer preferences related to aging.
How we care for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias as the disease progresses, and the management of the behaviors associated with this progression, are issues of growing concern.
“If all four dementia causes were counted together, dementia would have been the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2017,” according to the authors of a new report.
Members of AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine should adopt a policy of “comfort feeding” for certain residents with dementia rather than honor advance directives that indicate criteria that otherwise would trigger an order to stop feeding them, recommends a resolution passed by the AMDA House of Delegates during the organization’s annual conference.
Do brain games and other fun-based approaches to mental stimulation help reduce Alzheimer’s? Some interesting findings are beginning to emerge.
Older adults who are frail are more susceptible to Alzheimer’s dementia, new research published in The Lancet Neurology journal suggests.
Staying active in old age may help memory and thinking, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
An Alzheimer’s vaccine that could reduce dementia by half? Researchers at the University of Texas are saying such an outcome just might be possible, in the wake of results from an experimental vaccine.
It has been said that music can soothe the savage beast. Apparently, it can do some good things for those with dementia as well.
The 25th anniversary of the Helen Bader Center at Ovation Communities has prompted a look back on past dementia care and thoughts about where future studies will take us.
