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If you couldn’t see your food on the plate, then it would be no wonder that you wouldn’t eat it. Researchers believe that the visual-cognitive deficiencies caused by Alzheimer’s are due to people with the diagnosis not being able to process visual data—such as depth perception and contrast. There have been a number of studies... Read More

Living with a diagnosis of dementia can make many older people at increased risk to other health conditions, infections and falls. Research shows that due to this increase people with dementia also have multiple hospital admissions, more so than those without the condition. A recent research has looked into the rates of readmission of older people, and... Read More

A simple blood test may hold the key to an early dementia diagnosis, according to new research pioneered by Australian and Japanese scientists. In a world first, the test is expected to make an accurate diagnosis up to 30 years before symptoms appear. Published in the journal Nature, the research was 90 per cent accurate... Read More