Posts Tagged ‘Cognitive-impairment’
Study: Education and lifestyle helped over a million older Americans avoid serious cognitive problems in 2017
Study: More U.S. seniors, especially women, retaining health brains (UPI): The percentage of older Americans reporting serious problems with memory and thinking has declined in recent years — and higher education levels may be part of the reason, a new study finds.
Read MoreDebate: What is the role of financial advisors and platforms in detecting and addressing cognitive decline among older clients?
Baby Boomers’ Biggest Financial Risk: Cognitive Decline (The Wall Street Journal): For baby boomers who manage their own nest eggs, a risk is looming that has nothing to do with stock prices or interest rates. The risk is cognitive decline, which can rob them of their judgment, often without much warning. One big mistake—or a series…
Read MoreDebate: Are depression and dementia two sides of the same coin? And, if they are, how to best approach treatment?
Every seven seconds, someone in the world is diagnosed with dementia. A typical case that I often see in my practice is as follows: A 76-year-old woman has a two-year history of progressive worsening of short-term memory and cognitive decline. She can’t recall the names of her grandchildren and is devastated by her deteriorating abilities.…
Read MoreStudy: High Cognitive Reserve (CR) seen to significantly lower dementia risk even in the presence of high Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) neuropathology
Lifespan Cognitive Reserve—A Secret to Coping With Neurodegenerative Pathology (JAMA Neurology editorial): Given the limited success of therapeutic interventions for Alzheimer disease, there is increased interest in understanding whether modifiable factors can help cope with or postpone the appearance of brain pathology. It is estimated that about 35% of Alzheimer risk is modifiable. Epidemiologic studies…
Read MoreGrowing research shows how two of the major cancer treatments, radiation and chemotherapy, can lead to long-term cognitive impairment
Mind jumble: Understanding chemo brain (Stanford Medicine): Sarah Liu was treated for leukemia as a teenager. She attended her high school graduation on a four-hour pass from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and was bald under her white graduation cap, her arm bandaged where she’d been receiving chemotherapy drugs. Liu survived cancer and the ordeal of…
Read MoreShould heads of state and candidates to high office pass a cognitive/ mental fitness test?
Is it fair to question a presidential candidate’s mental fitness? (Salon): “My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered,” Ron Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, wrote of his father’s performance during the first 1984 presidential debate. At…
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