Brushing Your Teeth May Lower Dementia Risk (And 8 Other Reasons To Brush)

Brushing Your Teeth May Lower Dementia Risk (And 8 Other Reasons To Brush)

However, they also warned that the study did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship between brushing teeth and dementia. “I would be reluctant to draw the conclusion that brushing your teeth would definitely prevent you from getting Alzheimer's …
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Host well-deserved Coffee Break and support great cause

“Currently the Alzheimer Society of Ontario estimates that by 2020, close to one quarter of a millions seniors in Ontario will be living with dementia,” said Denise Wood, executive director, Alzheimer Society of Leeds and Grenville. According to Wood …
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New experimental drug for Alzheimer's found helpful

Thirty-five million people worldwide are estimated to have dementia, and Alzheimer's is the most common manifestation. About 5 million in the U.S. have Alzheimer's. Current medicines such as Aricept and Namenda just temporarily ease symptoms. There is …
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3 years' probation for caregiver who stole from elderly man

A Marana woman who stole from the 85-year-old dementia patient she was caring for was sentenced to three years' probation Monday in Pima County Superior Court. Randi Lynn Hall, 27, was indicted in March on three child abuse counts and one count of …
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