Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) is proud to play host to the longest running international conference on dementia, attracting over 1,000 delegates from all corners of the world. Held every two years, the conference boasts an international range of keynote speakers and oral and poster pres...
The World Alzheimer Report,1 recently published under the auspices of Alzheimer Disease International (ADI), emphasises that, with global increases in population size and life expectancy, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become a world health problem. According to the new report, the global prevalence...
1. What's the main idea of the passage? [ ] A. Some early signs of the Alzheimer's disease. B. Some physical tests about Alzheimer's disease. C. The research about Alzheimer's disease. D. The patients of Alzheimer's disease.2. How many Alzheimer's patients now around the world?
Of all the troubles facing the world, the rising prevalence of dementia might seem among the less pressing. The reason behind it—longer lifespans—is to be cheered; it does not advance at the speed of a viral infection but with the ponderous inevitability of demographic change; and its full...
Dementia is a syndrome(综合症),usually progressive,which harms memory and other functions of thought beyond what would usually be expected from aging.Though dementia can result from Alzheimer's disease or a stroke,it is not an unavoidable consequence of aging,the World Health Organizatio...
Except here, the baker and the butcher are geriatric nurses and specialists trained to deal with the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, which can manifest themselves as disorientation and occasionally aggressive behaviour. There are a handful of such places scattered round the world, thou...
World Alzheimer Report 2016: improving healthcare for people living with dementia: coverage, quality and costs now and in the future. (Alzheimer’s Disease International, 2016). Sperling, R. A. et al. Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) in amyloid modifying therapeutic trials: ...
Alzheimer's disease(老年痴呆症)affects millions of people around the world. American researchers say the disease will affect more than one hundred million people worldwide by the year twenty fifty. That would be four times the current number. Researchers and doctors have been studying Alzheimer's...