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Mild memory problems in older people are often excused as “senior moments,” but a new study has found the same changes in the brain that cause severe dementia may also be responsible for those memory lapses. The findings contradict a long-held notion that memory loss is a normal part of aging, the U.S. team said [...] The scene was a kind of science court. On trial was the question “Can anything — running on a treadmill, eating more spinach, learning Arabic — prevent Alzheimer’s disease or delay its progression?” To try to answer that question, the National Institutes of Health sponsored the court, appointing a jury of 15 medical scientists with [...] A new report from the Alzheimer’s Association, Changing the Trajectory of Alzheimer’s Disease: A National Imperative shows that in the absence of disease-modifying treatments, the cumulative costs of care for people with Alzheimer’s from 2010 to 2050 will exceed $20 trillion, in today’s dollars. The report, which examines the current trajectory of Alzheimer’s based on [...] |
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