Concern over 'poor' dementia care
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Some dementia patients have gone years without leaving their NHS hospital wards, BBC Scotland learns.
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Around 700,000 Britons suffer from dementia and the condition costs the nation's economy 17 billion pounds annually, the Alzheimer's Society has said Tuesday.
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Advocates for the mental ill are trying to secure voting rights while concern mounts about the risks of voting by people with conditions like dementia.
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Two drug firms and a charity for people with Alzheimer&#39;s disease are mounting a legal challenge Monday against a government watchdog&#39;s recommendations about anti-dementia drugs prescription.
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NEW YORK  - A recent survey found that two out of three African Americans worry about developing heart disease and two out of five are concerned about developing Alzheimer's disease, yet only one in 20 are aware that heart health is linked to brain health.
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Questions are being raised about the NHS's ability to push ahead with plans to close services.
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Business & money: New research indicates almost three-quarters of people are worse off as a result of looking after a disabled or chronically sick relative.
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War, poverty and diseases such as AIDS are adding to mental health problems in poorer countries, which are generally ill-equipped to respond to depression, schizophrenia and other such ailments, according to health officials.
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A "care guarantee" for the elderly is expected to figure in the Lib Dems' vision for the National Health Service.
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Doctors deny older people treatments they would offer younger patients, a study says.
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A major survey is to try to establish how many people are malnourished when they are admitted to hospitals and care homes.
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The government will Tuesday launch an inquiry into social care provision for elderly and disabled people after enormous variations in the way local councils decide who gets help.
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For years, experts have known that high blood pressure is related to poor cognitive performance in older adults and can lead to adverse changes in the brain.
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There are worrying contrasts between the high standards of private mental hospital wards and the Victorian realities of the public sector, a report found today.
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Over two million elderly Tanzanian women are at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS due to neglect, ignorance and poverty, a new study by HelpAge International has revealed.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: That members have not delivered on Gleneagles is not in doubt. But Make Poverty History made aid delivery seem too simple.
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Most people have no plans to put money aside to pay for the extra care they will need in old age, a survey suggests.