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Alzheimer's

July 2024

  • Vanessa Aylwin in 2021.

    The long read
    ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s

    The long read: By the time my wife got a diagnosis, her long and harrowing deterioration had already begun. By the end, I was in awe of her
  • An orange-and-white sign for Eli Lilly outside their corporate headquarters in Indianapolis.

    FDA approves second Alzheimer’s drug that can slow onset of disease

    Eli Lilly says Kisunla demonstrated ‘meaningful results’ for people showing early symptoms of the disease
  • A healthy diet in childhood can help protect mental sharpness into old age.

    Healthy childhood diet can ‘keep mind sharp into 70s’ and ward off dementia

    Study is first to track people at different time points in life and finds close link between nutrition and cognitive ability

June 2024

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Social care is a timebomb beneath Britain – why does neither main party have a plan to tackle it?

    Gaby Hinsliff
    Plans to fund adult care have been derided as a ‘dementia tax’ or a ‘death tax’. The carers I visited showed me that what they need is both urgent and simple, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • Several images from brain scans

    Ten-minute brain scan could detect dementia early, study suggests

    Scan could become routine procedure in memory clinics if findings confirmed in larger cohort, scientists say
  • Bobby Charlton lifts the Jules Rimet trophy at Wembley after England’s triumph in 1966

    ‘Sport holds a special place’: how one man helps his father with Alzheimer’s

    Matt Singleton is a gerontologist who has written a book around the 1966 World Cup which aims to stimulate memories

May 2024

  • A woman holds the handles of a wheelchair in which an elderly woman with grey hair in sitting. They are facing away from the camera and neither of their faces are visible.

    Cost of dementia to UK could almost double to £91bn by 2040, study finds

  • Glenda Parkin siting in a field of flowers smiling

    Australia’s health watchdog warns patients are being overprescribed psychotropic medication

  • A doctor points to PET scan results that are part of a previous study on Alzheimer's disease.

    Scientists claim to have found another distinct genetic form of Alzheimer’s

  • Women in group therapy holding hands in unity.

    Women live more years in ill-health than men, finds gender health gap study

April 2024

  • Scientist viewing a human brain scan on a touch screen

    Hundreds of thousands face being denied revolutionary new dementia drugs in England

    Exclusive: Treatments near approval but lack of diagnostic capacity means NHS is unprepared for rollout, says report
  • Brain scan

    What are the symptoms of dementia and how do you get a diagnosis?

    Some symptoms could be a sign of other conditions so it is important to see a GP if you have concerns
  • Images of brain scans

    Thousands to be offered blood tests for dementia in UK trial

    More than 50 clinics will offer tests to about 5,000 people who are worried about their memory in five-year trial

March 2024

  • Sonia Sodha

    Will this brutally honest look at dementia finally get us talking or will we turn away?

    Sonia Sodha
  • Senior man playing hopscotch in the park

    Dementia is not a living death – I’m very much alive

  • Illustration shows a mother and child looking out on a scene of environmental destruction, pollution, rain and other issues.

    ‘Everybody has a breaking point’: how the climate crisis affects our brains

  • Clinical research to develop a possible cure for Alzheimers and dementia in the lab

    Alzheimer’s ‘breakthrough’ stalls: why a much-hyped drug is facing approval delays

  • Neurology professor Lisa Mosconi: ‘Menopause is a renovation project on the brain’

  • Other lives
    Edwin Hancock obituary

February 2024

  • Wendy Mitchell, Hull, UK - 11 Feb 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Fabio De Paola/REX/Shutterstock (14360682u) Author Wendy Mitchell pictured at her home near Hull. Wendy has written about her life with dementia after the devastating diagnosis at 58, didn't stop Mitchell becoming a bestselling author. Wendy Mitchell, Hull, UK - 11 Feb 2022

    Wendy Mitchell obituary

    Writer and dementia campaigner who believed that people should have the right to choose their own death
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