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Dementia - More Than Just Memory Loss

Dementia is more than just memory loss

As we age, we naturally have difficulty remembering things or finding the right words to say. This is normal. However, Dementia is not normal. The condition causes mental changes that make it difficult to function and carry out our normal lives, not just remember names and dates.

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Facts About Dementia

Dementia is a debilitating disease that not only effects the person afflicted with it but the entire family. Dementia is a progressive disease that over a period of years eventually robs a person of their ability to recognize family members or take care of themselves and their daily needs. Alzheimers is only one form of dementia and is the best known.

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Are Symptoms of Dementia or Alzheimers in Your Future?

Do you sometimes wonder if symptoms of dementia are in your future? You need to make some deposits in your brain reserve account.

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Dementia Community Roadshow provides lifeline to 100,000 families

On 14 June Alzheimer's Society, Alzheimer Scotland and Tesco will launch the UK’s first ever Dementia Community Roadshow.

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URGENT: Getting dementia on the global agenda

Alzheimer's Disease International and Alzheimer's Society are urgently asking for your help to get dementia on the agenda of global organisations including the UN and World Health Organisation.

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The right prescription: a call to action on the use of antipsychotic drugs for people with dementia

The Dementia Action Alliance has launched a call to action on the use of antipsychotic drugs for people with dementia.

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Alzheimer’s Society celebrities run in Bupa London 10,000 and raise funds for people with dementia and their carers

Actors Shaun Dooley and Nigel Whitmey, TV presenter Jamie Darling and garden designer and BBC presenter, Chris Beardshaw, have raised almost £2,500 for us by taking part in the Bupa London 10,000.

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