# dementia - Wednesday 17 December, 2014
# Dementia
# Dementia
Let’s make 2015 the year we begin to listen the voice of the person with dementia.
# dementia - Sunday 30 November, 2014
# Column
# Column
Whenever I feel that caring for my mother is getting the better of me, I think back on the all amazing memories I have with this inspiring and courageous woman.
# dementia - Wednesday 19 November, 2014
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
A new study shows the benefit of learning coping strategies.
# dementia - Sunday 12 October, 2014
# Time Out
# Time Out
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
# dementia - Tuesday 30 September, 2014
# Ageing Population
# Ageing Population
A first of its kind report in the world shows that those with an intellectual disability are less likely to suffer from a heart attack
# Grief
# Grief
Every time you see them, you grieve a little bit more, but you never, ever show it.
# dementia - Sunday 21 September, 2014
# Health
# Health
Two people affected by dementia talk candidly about how it has changed their lives.
# dementia - Thursday 4 September, 2014
# dementia - Friday 15 August, 2014
# dementia - Thursday 29 May, 2014
# Don't Be So Cynical
# Don't Be So Cynical
That’s what Finnish researchers say, if you believe them that is.
# dementia - Thursday 1 May, 2014
# Dementia
# Dementia
The number of people in this country suffering from dementia is expected to treble over the next 30 years, yet Ireland invests only half the OECD average in long-term care.
# dementia - Saturday 12 April, 2014
# Green Giants
# Green Giants
It improves your memory, apparently.
# dementia - Wednesday 9 April, 2014
# Neuroscience
# Neuroscience
But researchers at Trinity want to help them stay mentally sharp.
# dementia - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
# Early Indication
# Early Indication
US researchers have developed a prototype test which can indicate whether a person will develop the disease.
# dementia - Tuesday 18 February, 2014
# Brain Health
# Brain Health
This video explains it all.
# dementia - Tuesday 28 January, 2014
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
At any one time, one in four people in Irish hospitals suffer from dementia, with their care costing the state €21 million a year.
# dementia - Saturday 7 December, 2013
# Prime Numbers
# Prime Numbers
Plus: How much does the average family with two children spend on childcare every year?
# dementia - Friday 6 December, 2013
# Insight
# Insight
Shortly after Derek and I married, I began to notice something was amiss. I spent a lot of time in denial… but then he got his diagnosis.
# dementia - Thursday 5 December, 2013
# Brian Disease
# Brian Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease International say to 135 million people globally will suffer from the disease by 2050.
# dementia - Tuesday 19 November, 2013
# De-stress
# De-stress
It’s hoped the study will lead to new ways to improve quality of life for both the carer and the sufferer.
# dementia - Friday 19 July, 2013
# HSE
# HSE
It also said that a review has been undertaken to determine what, if any, risk may exist for other patients.
# CJD
# CJD
Those patients will be contacted by the HSE today.
# dementia - Thursday 20 June, 2013
# HIQA
# HIQA
A lack of dedicated cleaning staff meant some residents’ facilities were ‘heavily soiled’, HIQA found.
# dementia - Friday 7 June, 2013
# Good Health
# Good Health
A major new study by The Lancet found a dramatic decrease in illness in China over the past two decades.
# dementia - Thursday 13 September, 2012
# Cambodia
# Cambodia
Ieng Thirith, the notorious regime’s highest ranking woman, had been charged with crimes against humanity, genocide, homicide, torture and religious persecution.
# dementia - Thursday 6 September, 2012
# Alzheimers
# Alzheimers
A new study says the extract “does not significantly reduce the likelihood of diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in older people”.
# dementia - Friday 17 August, 2012
# Dementia
# Dementia
Genio, the charity heading up the project, says it hopes to provide those living with dementia with the option of living for longer within their own communities and having an improved quality of life.
# dementia - Tuesday 1 May, 2012
# Research
# Research
More than 44,000 people in Ireland are affected by Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia
# dementia - Sunday 11 March, 2012
# Khairia
# Khairia
Independent investigator Shaukut Qadir’s theory also shows bin Laden’s deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri as an ambitious second-in-command.
# dementia - Sunday 4 March, 2012
# Sitdown Sunday
From The Daily Edge
# Sitdown Sunday
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
# dementia - Thursday 16 February, 2012
# dementia - Sunday 5 February, 2012
# Sitdown Sunday
From The Daily Edge
# Sitdown Sunday
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
# dementia - Wednesday 18 January, 2012
# Dementia
# Dementia
Dementia is estimated to cost €1.69 billion a year in Ireland, with around 4,000 new cases each year.
# dementia - Monday 31 October, 2011
# Read Me
# Read Me
Elizabeth Tierney’s husband Jim was diagnosed with dementia in 1997. Here she describes how the man she loved gradually slipped away.
# dementia - Monday 18 July, 2011
# Dementia
# Dementia
Research claims that drugs like paracetamol reduces agitation in patients – and could be substitute for antipsychotic meds.
# dementia - Tuesday 19 October, 2010
# Health
# Health
The vitamin could halve the rate of brain shrinkage in older people.