Dementia Archives

10.21.2024 older dementia patient with cane being guided by a health care worker in a nursing home

How Dementia Patients are Raising Standards in Nursing Homes

Nursing homes with more dementia patients are better equipped to provide these patients with proper long-term care.

Fellow Heather Sherr

05.23.2023 graph depicting the association with loneliness and memory decline

Friends for Life

Increased loneliness and social isolation are associated with memory decline and an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease.

Fellow Sean Hagan

05.15.2023 Elderly woman relaxing and breathing fresh air with sunlight in outdoors park

Fresh Air, Sharp Minds

Improving ambient air quality is associated with decreasing the risk of dementia among adults as they age.

Fellow Caroline Dignard

04.19.2023 a graph of different age and growth

Longevity Without Alzheimer's

A healthy lifestyle may be linked with greater life expectancy and fewer years spent with Alzheimer’s disease.

Fellow Caroline Dignard

07.01.2022 a graph of different colored lines

Schizophrenia Diagnosis Disparities

Researchers analyzed nursing home resident data to see if race influenced schizophrenia diagnoses before and after a Medicare and Medicaid partnership was implemented.

Fellow Hannah Tremont

02.04.2022 Salloway

Stephen Salloway

Alzheimer's researcher Stephen Salloway talks about caregiving, conquering stigma and why there's hope in this work.

Fellow Maya Thirkill

06.02.2021 leaves on trees sequentially blowing away in the shape of heads

Dementia Out in the Country

Rural residents experienced the shortest life expectancy after receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Fellow Pat Williams

06.17.2020 a half of a brain

Unequal Burden of Dementia

A third of people in the US aged 85 and older have Alzheimer’s disease, but that burden does not fall equally across the population.

Guest Authors Jo Mhairi Hale, Mikko Myrskylä

10.25.2018 Two hearing aids

Hearing Loss is Memory Loss

Asri Maharani and colleagues followed patients for 18 years to measure associations between hearing aid use and episodic memory. Memory loss slowed after participants started using hearing aids.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

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