Tag: Dementia

Research Reveals How Daily Driving Could Be Saving You From Dementia

Michael Gwarisa

By Staff Reporter  Your car keys might actually be the key to maintaining your memory as you age. That’s according to health expert Dr. Steve Burgess, who has highlighted research linking a common daily habit—driving—with a significantly lower risk of dementia. “Most people have no idea that something they do every day could be protecting their brain,” says Dr. Burgess, CEO and founder of CME Vacations, a company that organizes continuing medical education conferences for healthcare professionals. The surprising finding? Regularly driving a car may help preserve cognitive function and…

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Viagra drug improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia

Healthtimes

A University of Oxford trial has shown that sildenafil, commonly known as Viagra, enhances blood flow to the brain and improves the function of brain blood vessels in patients at a heightened risk of vascular dementia.   This new study, published in Circulation Research and supported by the NIHR Oxford   Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), marks a potentially pivotal step in the fight against this debilitating condition. Dr Alastair Webb, Associate Professor at the Wolfson Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia at Oxford University, said: “This is the first trial to…

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Stop stigmatising the elderly with dementia and alzheimer’s, communities told

Kuda Pembere

STIGMATISING the elderly particularly those suffering from Alzheimer’s and Dementia, labelling them witches and wizards could be as a result of lack of knowledge of the diseases. Nonetheless, this should not be an excuse for name-calling which further worsens depression and other related disorders among the elderly. By Kudakwashe Pembere This was said in separate interviews on the sidelines of the World Alzheimer’s Day commemorations held at the Society of Destitute Aged (SODA) Old People’s Home in Highfields on Wednesday. The World Alzheimer’s Day is commemorated every 21st of September. Alzheimer’s is the…

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