Knitting may help prevent Alzheimer's disease - Coeur d'Alene Press: Healthy Community

Knitting may help prevent Alzheimer's disease - Coeur d'Alene Press: Healthy Community: Did you know that women age 60 and older have a one in six chance of getting Alzheimer's disease in their lifetime? Women are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's compared with breast cancer, according to a report from the Alzheimer's Association.

The good news is, you may be able to delay or even prevent Alzheimer's disease if you knit when you are in your 50s and 60s. The Mayo Clinic team found that those who spent their 50s and early 60s reading, playing games and engaging in various craft hobbies, including knitting and quilting, had a 40 percent lower risk of memory impairment than those who didn't have hobbies. In later life, these same activities reduced the risk by between 30 and 50 percent.

Smart shoe insoles aims to help track patients with Alzheimer's disease - WTOP.com

Smart shoe insoles aims to help track patients with Alzheimer's disease - WTOP.com: As doctors explore why more seniors are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, science is coming up with a way to help counteract a major problem related to the disease -- wandering -- with GPS technology.

So far, the problem hasn't been about applying GPS technology to finding patients, says George Mason University professor Andrew Carle. It was finding a way to hide it from Alzheimer's sufferers prone to taking off unfamiliar items, such as a bracelet, that contained the GPS.

But what about shoes?

New Clues to Alzheimer’s - NYTimes.com

New Clues to Alzheimer’s - NYTimes.com: One promising study, led by researchers at Harvard Medical School, was published online Wednesday in the journal Nature. It identified a protein that typically increases in old age and appears to protect brain cells from dying. In patients who develop Alzheimer’s, the protein, called REST, is in short supply and out of position. In patients who have yet to suffer cognitive losses, the protective protein is still present and in the right spot (the nucleus of a neuron) to be effective even if those patients have the brain tangles and plaques long associated with Alzheimer’s.

Alzheimer's Hits Women Hardest, Report Finds - NBC News.com

Alzheimer's Hits Women Hardest, Report Finds - NBC News.com: Women are carrying the bigger burden of Alzheimer’s disease in the U.S., according to a new report — making up not only most of the cases, but paying more of the cost of caring for the growing population of people with the mind-destroying illness.

The new report from the Alzheimer’s Association paints Alzheimer’s as a disease that disproportionately affects women, both as patients and as caregivers. It points out that women in their 60s are about twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s over the rest of their lives as they are to develop breast cancer.

Senior Women Are Epicenter of Alzheimer’s as Most Likely Victims, Care Givers

Senior Women Are Epicenter of Alzheimer’s as Most Likely Victims, Care Givers: March 20, 2014 – Women are the “epicenter of Alzheimer’s disease” according to a new report from the Alzheimer’s Association that finds senior women at age 65 almost twice as likely as senior men to develop the disease. And, women in their 60s are about twice as likely to get AD in older age as they are breast cancer. But, that is not all of the burden for women: they about 2.5 times more likely than men to provide full-time care for AD victims.

Women: Alzheimer's more likely than breast cancer - CNN.com

Women: Alzheimer's more likely than breast cancer - CNN.com: Women age 60 and older have a 1 in 6 chance of getting Alzheimer's disease in their lifetime, and are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's compared with breast cancer, according to a report from the Alzheimer's Association.

Researchers find that brain cell regeneration may alleviate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease

Researchers find that brain cell regeneration may alleviate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease: Alzheimer's disease is the most widespread degenerative neurological disorder in the world. Over five million Americans live with it, and one in three senior citizens will die with the disease or a similar form of dementia. While memory loss is a common symptom of Alzheimer's, other behavioral manifestations - depression, loss of inhibition, delusions, agitation, anxiety, and aggression - can be even more challenging for victims and their families to live with.

Now Prof. Daniel Offen and Dr. Adi Shruster of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine have discovered that by reestablishing a population of new cells in the part of the brain associated with behavior, some symptoms of Alzheimer's disease significantly decreased or were reversed altogether

Study: Alzheimer's May Kill As Many People As Heart Disease, Cancer - OzarksFirst.com

Study: Alzheimer's May Kill As Many People As Heart Disease, Cancer - OzarksFirst.com: Currently, heart disease and cancer are the first and second leading causes of death among Americans. However, researchers say the numbers are based on what is reported on death certificates, which could under-represent Alzheimer's-related deaths.

"Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are under-reported on death certificates and medical records," study author Bryan D. James, an epidemiologist with the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, said in a press release. "Death certificates often list the immediate cause of death, such as pneumonia, rather than listing dementia as an underlying cause."

Alzheimer’s disease: How the daffodil may be about to revolutionise treatment | Big Issue

Alzheimer’s disease: How the daffodil may be about to revolutionise treatment | Big Issue: Tradition has it that you get a welcome in the hillsides. But shepherd Kevin Stephens (below, right) is planning to supply something else entirely – a drug to fight Alzheimer’s, no less, extracted from the Welsh national flower, the humble daffodil. And the revolution is due to start next year.