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Science Daily: Dementia, in any form, is a heartbreaking disease that can take away one's thinking and judgement abilities before they pass. To save face, people with dementia often pretend to know answers to questions, even if they really don't. This often hides the severity of the disease and exasperates the fears and frustrations of the people who care for them. The act of pretending to know answers to keep up appearances is referred to as "saving appearance responses" (SARs), and a research group has performed the first statistical analysis of SARs in patients with various forms of dementia. READ MORE
Newsweek: Johnson and Johnson recently announced that it was halting a clinical trial for a new Alzheimer’s drug after safety issues emerged. This latest failure adds to the dozens of large, costly clinical trials that have shown no effect in treating this devastating disease. The growing list of failures should give us pause for thought – have we got the causes of Alzheimer’s all wrong? READ MORE
Medical News Today: Some studies have suggested that alcohol consumption could expose people to a heightened risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life. But the mechanics behind this relationship have been unclear — until now. READ MORE
Tech Times: France has begun construction of an "Alzheimer's village" to serve as an open-structure facility that offers alternative therapies. It is slated to welcome approximately 120 patients upon completion by the end of 2019. The village, located near the city center of Dax, is part of an experimental treatment for Alzheimer's patients, and the first of its kind in the country. It's inspired by a similar experiment conducted in the Netherlands. READ MORE
Med Page Today: An advance care planning video did not affect do-not-hospitalize directives or overall proxy preferences for advanced dementia patients, results of the EVINCE randomized clinical trial found. By 6 months, do-not-hospitalize directives were the same for advanced care patients whether proxies watched a 12-minute advance care video or not, reported Susan Mitchell MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School. READ MORE
