The increasing incidence of breast cancer and disease burden is a significant public health concern. While 30% of breast cancers could be prevented through addressing modifiable risk factors, misconceptions among women about breast cancer risks hamper pr
Twitter is a social media platform for online message sharing. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of using Twitter to search for people who got lost due to dementia. The online messages on Twitter, i.e., tweets, were collected through
Another bottleneck for childhood dementia patients in Australia is the lack of access toclinical trials. Ananalysispublished in March this year showed that in December 2023, only two clinical trials were recruiting patients with childhood dementia in Australia. Worldwide however, 54 trials were recruit...
However, not all decisions are based on logic and deliberation; many are intuitive and based on emotions, needs, values, preferences or habits [25,26]. Even with significant cognitive decline, persons with dementia can still be “valuers” i.e. they can, on the basis of what they unrefle...
Many people do not want to think about dementia, especially if their lives have not yet been touched by it. But a total of 9.9 million people worldwide are diagnosed with dementia each year. That is one person every 3.2 seconds.
Dementia is a major global health challenge, with the number of people living with dementia worldwide set to triple from over 46 million to 131.5 million by 2050 [1]. Dementia profoundly impacts upon the person living with dementia, their family and carers and wider society, with the annual ...
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According to theParkinson’s Foundation, nearly 1 million people in the US and more than 10 million people worldwide live with PD. What’s more, PD cases are on the rise. In 2018, scholars from the US and the Netherlands published an article inJAMA Neurologythat warned of an emerging “...
4. Work toward dementia inclusivity. It’s a fact that many seniors experience some form ofdementia. We also have a goal in partnership with the City of Cincinnati and theAlzheimer’s Association of Greater Cincinnatito make the Queen City the mostDementia-inclusive city in Americaby 2025. By...
Although many people with dementia prefer to live at home, when this is not possible they are placed in care facilities: about 70 per cent of nursing home residents have a cognitive impairment. TheOECD has pointed outthat “the vast majority of long-term care facilities remain poorly designed...