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Alzheimer's

July 2024

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on March 18, 2011 shows a woman, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, walking in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern France. For decades now, soaring population growth and ageing rates have been forecast to ignite a global explosion of Alzheimer's, the memory- and freedom-robbing disease afflicting mainly 65-plussers. But an unexpected, and hopeful, trend may be emerging. / AFP PHOTO / Sébastien BOZONSEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images

    ‘The grief and loss is hard to bear’: the cruelty of Alzheimer’s disease

    Letter: Readers respond to Michael Aylwin’s article about his wife’s dementia
  • Kate Bingham wearing an orange jacket and standing on some grass

    UK needs Covid-style push on dementia drugs, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce

    Kate Bingham says ageing population means tackling dementia must be treated as economic imperative

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

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

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

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
    The latest advert by the Alzheimer’s Society is shocking, but it tells the harsh reality about the disease that is the leading cause of death in Britain
  • Senior man playing hopscotch in the park

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

    Letter: Willy Gilder thinks the latest Alzheimer’s Society ad campaign is a mistake and would like to see it withdrawn

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

    • 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’

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