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14 modifiable risk factors for dementia that could reduce or delay cases worldwide by 50%
Risk Factors for Dementia - 2024 Lancet Update
14 modifiable risk factors for dementia that could reduce or delay cases worldwide by 50%
Risk Factors for Dementia - 2024 Lancet Update
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14 modifiable risk factors for dementia that could reduce or delay cases worldwide by 50%
VIDEO: Understand how dementia affects communication and learn some useful tips and strategies for your conversations with people living with dementia as they progress through the stages of the disease.
Communicating with people living with dementia
VIDEO: Understand how dementia affects communication and learn some useful tips and strategies for your conversations with people living with dementia as they progress through the stages of the disease.
Communicating with people living with dementia
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VIDEO: Understand how dementia affects communication and learn some useful tips and strategies for your conversations with people living with dementia as they progress through the stages of the disease.
Certain changes in behavior or mood can indicate that an older adult may be considering suicide. It is important to recognize the warning signs, risk factors, and ways to reduce the risk.
Suicide and Older Adults
Certain changes in behavior or mood can indicate that an older adult may be considering suicide. It is important to recognize the warning signs, risk factors, and ways to reduce the risk.
Suicide and Older Adults
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Certain changes in behavior or mood can indicate that an older adult may be considering suicide. It is important to recognize the warning signs, risk factors, and ways to reduce the risk.
Older adults who continue the same drinking pattern into their senior years may be unaware that they have less tolerance than when they were younger.
Alcohol Use and Older Adults
Older adults who continue the same drinking pattern into their senior years may be unaware that they have less tolerance than when they were younger.
Alcohol Use and Older Adults
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Older adults who continue the same drinking pattern into their senior years may be unaware that they have less tolerance than when they were younger.
Anxiety and Older Adults | Depression and Older Adults
Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and Older Adults | Depression and Older Adults
Anxiety and Depression
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Anxiety and Older Adults | Depression and Older Adults
Special Challenges for Parents who Are the Primary FTD Caregivers. When your spouse is diagnosed with a terminal, degenerative illness, you suffer relentless, devastating loss with no apparent resolution long before that person’s physical death.
When Dementia is in the House
Special Challenges for Parents who Are the Primary FTD Caregivers. When your spouse is diagnosed with a terminal, degenerative illness, you suffer relentless, devastating loss with no apparent resolution long before that person’s physical death.
When Dementia is in the House
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Special Challenges for Parents who Are the Primary FTD Caregivers. When your spouse is diagnosed with a terminal, degenerative illness, you suffer relentless, devastating loss with no apparent resolution long before that person’s physical death.
What is early onset dementia and the importance of early detection.
Early or Young Onset Dementia
What is early onset dementia and the importance of early detection.
Early or Young Onset Dementia
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What is early onset dementia and the importance of early detection.
The state of mental health in Canada has gotten significantly worse since the pandemic.
How we are doing on mental health in Canada infographic
The state of mental health in Canada has gotten significantly worse since the pandemic.
How we are doing on mental health in Canada infographic
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The state of mental health in Canada has gotten significantly worse since the pandemic.
The Alzheimer Society of Canada's Landmark Study uses data modeling to predict the country's future with dementia.
Alzheimer Society of Canada's Landmark Study
The Alzheimer Society of Canada's Landmark Study uses data modeling to predict the country's future with dementia.
Alzheimer Society of Canada's Landmark Study
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The Alzheimer Society of Canada's Landmark Study uses data modeling to predict the country's future with dementia.
Alzheimer Society mission - To alleviate the personal and social consequences of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and to promote the search for causes, treatments and a cure.
Alzheimer Society of Canada
Alzheimer Society mission - To alleviate the personal and social consequences of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and to promote the search for causes, treatments and a cure.
Alzheimer Society of Canada
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Alzheimer Society mission - To alleviate the personal and social consequences of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and to promote the search for causes, treatments and a cure.
Young or early onset refers to people under 65 who develop dementia, a term doctors use when brain illness or brain changes make it hard for someone to remember, think, see, move, communicate or connect.
Young Onset Dementia Video
Young or early onset refers to people under 65 who develop dementia, a term doctors use when brain illness or brain changes make it hard for someone to remember, think, see, move, communicate or connect.
Young Onset Dementia Video
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Young or early onset refers to people under 65 who develop dementia, a term doctors use when brain illness or brain changes make it hard for someone to remember, think, see, move, communicate or connect.
Older people are happier than middle-aged people, and younger people. Study after study is coming to the same conclusion. Laura Carstensen (Stanford Alumni)
Older people are happier - Video
Older people are happier than middle-aged people, and younger people. Study after study is coming to the same conclusion. Laura Carstensen (Stanford Alumni)
Older people are happier - Video
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Older people are happier than middle-aged people, and younger people. Study after study is coming to the same conclusion. Laura Carstensen (Stanford Alumni)
Hundreds of published papers suggest that we experience peak happiness in our youth and old age, with a dip in mid-life around 50.
Older Adults and Happiness
Hundreds of published papers suggest that we experience peak happiness in our youth and old age, with a dip in mid-life around 50.
Older Adults and Happiness
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Hundreds of published papers suggest that we experience peak happiness in our youth and old age, with a dip in mid-life around 50.
Learn about dementia, a term used to describe conditions that cause the loss of the ability to think, remember, and reason. (From The National Institute on Aging)
What is Dementia?
Learn about dementia, a term used to describe conditions that cause the loss of the ability to think, remember, and reason. (From The National Institute on Aging)
What is Dementia?
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Learn about dementia, a term used to describe conditions that cause the loss of the ability to think, remember, and reason. (From The National Institute on Aging)
The CCSMH works to promote seniors' mental health by connecting people, ideas and resources.
Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health (CCSMH)
The CCSMH works to promote seniors' mental health by connecting people, ideas and resources.
Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health (CCSMH)
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The CCSMH works to promote seniors' mental health by connecting people, ideas and resources.
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