Dementia
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Navigating dementia care in the South Asian community: Overcoming barriers and stigma
Most South Asian people with dementia and their care partners did not know the signs and symptoms of dementia before their diagnosis.
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Seeing same doctor has ‘real benefits for people with dementia’
Patients were less likely to develop delirium, experience incontinence, and require emergency hospitalization.
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Co-housing and dementia villages: Social innovations offer alternatives for long-term care
Canada’s LTC can become a seamless, human-centred system that helps senior citizens get the care they need.
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Jennifer Lyle: For those living with dementia, families are essential to care
Opinion: According to the Office of the Seniors Advocate, more than half of all applications for essential visitor status were denied in 2021, and less than 25 per cent of all residents of long-term care have an essential visitor
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Global dementia rate to triple by 2050: study
Canada could see more than 1.3 million cases, an increase that could potentially slowed by addressing obesity, smoking, high blood pressure and low education.
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Food for thought: Can you eat your way to a better brain?
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Grieving Ottawa family wants to know why MTO relied on fax machines
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Opinion: Hospitals slow to recognize, manage dementia
Opinion: Hospitals slow to recognize, manage dementia
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Ian Mulgrew: Tackling dementia and access to justice in B.C.
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New calculator helps determine risk of dementia
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COVID-19 brain fog has links to brain disease: study
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Resignations keep Alzheimer's drug in spotlight
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Symptoms
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Urinary incontinence
Loss of bladder control; Uncontrollable urination; Urination - uncontrollable; Incontinence - urinary; Overactive bladderUrinary (or bladder) incontinence occurs when you are not able to keep urine from leaking out of your urethra.
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Bowel incontinence
Uncontrollable passage of feces; Loss of bowel control; Fecal incontinence; Incontinence - bowelBowel incontinence is the loss of bowel control, causing you to pass stool unexpectedly.
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Memory loss
Forgetfulness; Amnesia; Impaired memory; Loss of memory; Amnestic syndrome; Dementia - memory loss; Mild cognitive impairment - memory lossMemory loss (amnesia) is unusual forgetfulness.
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Hallucinations
Sensory hallucinationsHallucinations involve sensing things such as visions, sounds, or smells that seem real but are not.
Hallucinations
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