Dementia Articles page 8

Earthtimes - LONDON - The Alzheimer's Society of UK has recommended that dementia sufferers in the country be issued tracking devices if patients agree to the proposals. Dementia patients typically wander off by themselves and tagging them could be useful in ...

Chicago Tribune - This is the dilemma facing Jon and Wendy Savage (no Darlings here), the disaffected siblings whose lives are upended when their emotionally withholding, chronically absent father is diagnosed with dementia. As Jon and Wendy search for a suitable ...

Oregonian - So when their dad, Lenny, is diagnosed with dementia and has no one else to see to him, Jon and Wendy find themselves in the unfamiliar and even impossible position of having to cooperate with one another and do something good for someone else. Meet ...

Philadelphia Daily News - Every day, without fail, he brought flowers to his wife, who suffers from dementia and lives in a nursing home, his daughter said. "He had to have three knee-replacement surgeries because he wore them out," she said. "That's how dedicated he was." ...

FOXSports.com - His voice drops when he talks about fellow Hall of Fame tight end John Mackey, so badly afflicted by dementia that, at age 66, he's like a 3- or 4-year-old. With medical bills mounting, his wife had to take a job as a flight attendant. He ticks off ...

Guardian Unlimited - A leading charity has backed a plan for electronic tagging of dementia sufferers. The Alzheimer's Society said the plan could empower patients by giving them more freedom to wander off and could help families care for patients for longer. The tags ...

BBC News - He said sufferers would gain the freedom to "roam around their communities" without their families suffering the anxiety that such wandering can currently cause. The chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, Neil Hunt, agrees that the technology ...

Reuters - MUMBAI, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Indian drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd (RANB.BO: Quote , Profile , Research ) has received tentative approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for galantamine hydrobromide oral solution, the regulator's Web ...

Medical News Today - Its legal team represented the interests of people with dementia and their carers and raised additional arguments. - The Alzheimer's Society does not accept funding or any other support from the pharmaceutical industry for its campaign on access to ...

Tulsa World - Of "The Evening Descends," Billboard magazine says, "On their second album, the Evangelicals continue in the vein of fragmented and openly loopy psychedelic pop/rock dementia that treasures silence and one or two instrument arrangements as much ...