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Bookmark or Share- Mayo Clinic Minute: Dietary supplements don't reduce dementia risk, but ...Do dietary supplements reduce your risk of dementia and improve brain health? The Global Council on Brain Health says they don't. In a new report, the organization recommends that most people not take dietary supplements for this purpose. In addition, the Global Council on Brain Health, which is a collaborative organization associated with the AARP, […]
- Alzheimer’s and dementia: Understand wandering and how to address itWandering and becoming lost is common among people with Alzheimer's disease or other disorders causing dementia. This behavior can happen in the early stages of dementia — even if the person has never wandered in the past. Understand wandering If a person with dementia is returning from regular walks or drives later than usual or […]
- Moments of clarity in the fog of dementia - Mayo Clinic News NetworkThe findings showed that 75% of people having lucid episodes were reported to have Alzheimer’s Disease as opposed to other forms of dementia. Researchers define lucid episodes as unexpected, spontaneous, meaningful and relevant communication from a person who is assumed to have permanently lost the capacity for coherent interactions, either ...
- Alzheimer’s and dementia: When to stop drivingAn additional passenger to travel with the person with dementia — to sit in the back seat together and chat — may help with the transition to being a passenger rather than a driver. When to stop driving. People with mild dementia are at a much greater risk of unsafe driving compared with people of the same age without dementia.
- What is frontotemporal dementia? - Mayo Clinic News NetworkHow is frontotemporal dementia different from Alzheimer's disease? Alzheimer's disease is more common among people 75 and older. However, people with early onset Alzheimer's or frontotemporal dementia typically start exhibiting symptoms in midlife, from roughly age 30 to 60. Memory changes are less common with frontotemporal dementia than with ...
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