- A major cause of age-related memory loss identified: Potentially reversible
Scientists have found that the deficiency of a protein called RbAp48 in the hippocampus is a significant contributor to age-related memory loss and that this form of memory loss is reversible. The study, conducted in postmortem human brain cells and in mice, also offers the strongest causal evidence that age-related memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease are distinct conditions.
- Personal goals may facilitate or hinder older adults' striving for exercise
Although exercise may significantly promote healthy aging, many older adults remain sedentary. One reason for this may lie behind older adults’ personal goals.
- Dementia sufferers more likely to be diagnosed with urinary or fecal incontinence
Patients with a diagnosis of dementia have approximately three times the rate of diagnosis of urinary incontinence, and more than four times the rate of fecal incontinence, compared with those without a diagnosis of dementia, according to a new study.
