Wandering or ‘exit-seeking’ is common in dementia, often triggered by confusion or memory loss. Families need practical strategies and government support to navigate the risks.
The Alzheimer’s Association West Texas Chapter will host its End of 2025 Walk Season Celebration this Thursday.
Dementia today occupies the same stigmatized, system-neglected space that cancer did half a century ago. And history shows us ...
Results showed that super agers were 68% less likely to have the destructive APOE-ε4 gene, compared to people with ...
A multidisciplinary team has developed a selective compound that inhibits an enzyme tied to inflammation in people at genetic ...
With Black American men being underrepresented in Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease related dementias (AD/ADRD) research, a January study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia offered ...
Superagers” are people over 80 who are unusually resistant to dementia, with memory and thinking abilities that look more ...
The Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has been chosen as one of about 40 sites to see how well benfotiamine can slow ...
The Bio-Hermes-002 study, involving 1,000 volunteers aged over 60 in the UK, US and Canada, is using finger-prick testing to ...
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Super agers' resilience against Alzheimer's disease linked to protective gene variant
The gene variant posing the greatest genetic risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is called APOE -ε4. A different variant of the same gene, APOE -ε2, is thought to confer protection against AD.
An international trial involving 1,000 volunteers will aim to detect biomarkers associated with the condition.
An observational study of 1,024 older adults found that people who ate eggs about once a week had a 47% lower rate of ...
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