Earlier this week Microsoft Billionaire, Bill Gates, announced that he would be donating $100 million of his own personal money to Alzheimer’s research. $50 million will go to UK-based Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease. The Dementia Discovery Fund, which was...
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Older people are often overlooked and marginalised, says Dallas painter, Amy Werntz. “Our culture is obsessed with the idea that youth equals beauty.” But Ms Werntz believes life lays an imprint on the faces and bodies of older people that is beautiful: it’s the reason she has developed a self-described “obsession” with painting portraits of older...
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It is extremely worrying when someone with dementia develops pneumonia. Pneumonia is more common among elderly people and affects those with weakened immune systems, such as those who are living with dementia. A study of people living with dementia showed that as many as 40 per cent developed pneumonia over the 18-month study period. The...
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