BBC Breakfast viewers were left ‘in bits’ this morning after a pianist with dementia who improvised a tune from just four notes which went viral heard his arrangement played the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Paul Harvey, 80, from Sussex, was visibly overwhelmed after hearing the moving piece – and broke down in tears after he was … Read more
Living in a polluted area significantly raises the risk of dementia, according to the world’s largest study on the issue. Scientists found that the higher the level of toxic air in a postcode, the more likely its residents are to be hospitalised with Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. The research showed that any air pollution – … Read more
‘We are in awe every day of this woman’: The Veronicas’ Jessica and Lisa Origliasso talk about caring for their mother Colleen during her devastating battle with dementia By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 09:45 BST, 14 October 2020 | Updated: 09:45 BST, 14 October 2020 Two years after their mother, Colleen, was … Read more
Unpaid carers spent an extra 92 MILLION hours looking after relatives with dementia since coronavirus lockdown, new figures show The Alzheimer’s Society found families forced to increase their care since March This is partly because paid caring services contracted during the pandemic It estimates that women carried out 62million of these 92million extra hours By … Read more
A non-invasive sleep test may be able to help diagnose and predict dementia in older adults, a new study suggests. Researchers used a model to assess the difference between a person’s actual age and the biological age of their brain. Dementia patients monitored in their sleep had much higher scores than non-dementia patients and showed … Read more
Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati shares the devastating reality of caring for her dementia-stricken mother in a poignant new memoir. The actress, 53, of Oldham, Greater Manchester, who played Sunita Alahan on the ITV soap, tells how her mother Asha Gulati battled with dementia for years before her death in 2019, aged 79. In Do You … Read more
Coronation Street star Shobna Gulati has revealed how her mother’s dementia battle would ‘unlock files of her past’ and helped her see her mum ‘as a woman’. Actress Shobna, 53, from Oldham, appeared on Lorraine today, where she opened up about her mother Asha, who passed away in November 2019 after being diagnosed with the degenerative … Read more
Passing out drunk could more than double the risk of later developing dementia, a study has found, with just one drink a day raising the risk by 22 per cent. Researchers looked at dementia diagnoses in more than 130,000 adults in Europe who had reported their drinking habits some 14 years prior. Those who said they had … Read more
The heartbroken widow of actor Robin Williams revealed the relief she felt when he was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia after his death by suicide in 2014. Susan Schneider, 56, spoke to the Today show in an interview broadcast Tuesday in which she discussed the ‘invisible monster’ that chased her husband in the last years of … Read more
An 11-year-old girl has forgotten nearly everything she has learned after being diagnosed with childhood dementia. Molly Ingham, from Stalybridge, Cheshire, was a ‘perfectly healthy’ child until she turned six when she began having seizures, started to lose her eyesight, memory and mobility. She was eventually diagnosed with Batten disease – a rare form of … Read more