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A new drug appears to slow Alzheimer’s disease in what experts defined a “historic moment”. A new drug called lecanemab, has been developed by pharmaceutical companies Eisai and Biogen. The full details of the trial have not yet been published but it appears to slow the pace of brain’s decline. Scientists have injected 1,795 volunteers [...]
Age UK has launched a new programme to help older people stay connected online. Age UK has launched a £5 million digital campaign programme, which aims to help around 120,000 older people to get online. The programme will recruit and train volunteers to deliver essential digital skills support to older people across England and Wales [...]
“We hope to harness the power of light to relieve the suffering that millions of Alzheimer’s disease patients and their loved ones experience every day.”
A new device can detect Alzheimer’s disease in the blood up to 17 years before any symptoms start to show. The device uses immune-infrared sensors that detects the protein biomarker amyloid-beta misfolding. Amyloid-beta plays a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer and has been postulated as a potential biomarker for the disease. The study, [...]
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) platform now identifies which age groups are exposed to bad air at any given hour in a country. The platform, developed in collaboration with Swiss technology company IQAir, uses real-time crowd sourced data from public governmental sources, citizens, research and satellite data to deliver estimates of localised air quality of [...]
A new study shows that the English healthcare system does not do enough for the care of frail older people. Researchers from the University of Leicester and from University College of London found that clear and timely explanations of what’s happening and what’s wrong and a treatment with dignity and respect seem to be missing. [...]
A new study suggests that amino acid taurine could be employed in anti-ageing therapies. Researchers from the University of Sao Paulo analysed data from 24 female volunteers aged 55 to 70 who were randomly separated in two groups. One group consumed three 500 mg capsules of taurine per day for 16 weeks while the other [...]
TakingCare Personal Alarms has launched a new digital alarm to help elderly people in the wake of the digital phone line switchover. The digital alarm is the first in the UK with two multi-network SIM cards to ensure instant connectivity in case of a mobile network outage. The device uses a roaming algorithm to automatically [...]
Hit television drama series ‘This is Us’ has got it’s audience talking after displaying a compelling narrative about Alzheimer’s disease. According to new research led by the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, viewers of the drama thought that it helped to reduce some stigma that surrounds dementia. Viewers also saw it as motivational, [...]
Current figures of 6.5 million Americans aged 65 or older with Alzheimer’s disease are set to almost double by 2050 according to the Alzheimer’s association. The severity of this issue has already been recognised, Dr Robert Reinhart is working to create treatments to help those with brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s. In a recent study, [...]
