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Driving and dementia: share your experience

4 July 2019

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Help researchers to improve the guidance and support around driving after a dementia diagnosis by taking part in a survey to share your experience.

What’s that study? Investigating thinking and emotional regulation styles in older adults

18 February 2019

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We spoke to Anne-Marie Greenaway, PHD student at the University of Reading, who is leading a study to investigate the emotional wellbeing of people living with dementia. When someone experiences a low mood, it makes it more difficult to complete everyday tasks. Low mood increases the level of cognitive impairment in people living with dementia. As approximately half the number of […]

‘Exercise hormone’ may play a role in combating Alzheimer’s disease

14 January 2019

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This article has been reproduced from the NHS website. “An ‘exercise pill’ mimicking the effects of a gym workout could prevent Alzheimer’s disease,” the Daily Mirror reports. The “pill” is actually a reference to a protein called irisin. Irisin has been dubbed the “exercise hormone” because previous research found it’s released from muscles in response to […]

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