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Suicide Risk Jumps Soon After Dementia Diagnosis

March 22, 2021 Alzheimer Disease, Alzheimer’s disease, antigens, biologic therapy, Connecticut, Dementia, Depression, frontal and temporal lobe dementia, geriatric psychiatry, geriatrics (elder care), mental disorder, mental illness, old age psychiatry, psychiatric disorder, psychiatric illness, psychiatry (old age), suicide

Older patients recently diagnosed with dementia are at a significantly increased risk for suicide compared to their peers without dementia.

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Early Motor Signal Specific to Alzheimer’s Identified

February 25, 2021 Alzheimer Disease, Alzheimer’s disease, biological marker, biomarker, biostatistics, brain, cognitive impairment, Dementia, elderly/concerns of older adults, Epidemiology, frontal and temporal lobe dementia, gait abnormality, gait disorder, gait disturbance, geriatrics (elder care), lewy body dementia, mci, Memory, memory problems, mild cognitive impairment, neurodegenerative disease, walking abnormality

Abnormal walking patterns may be an early indicator of dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and may distinguish it from

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New Eye Test Could Spot Early Onset Dementia

July 25, 2018 Alzheimer, Alzheimer Disease, bbc, cognitive ability, Dementia, early, eye, health, Memory, Memory Loss, opthalmology, retina, retinal, retinal thinness, risk, study, symptoms

BBC reported Tuesday that opticians could potentially spot early signs of dementia using an eye test. The test, which is

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