They are also unsure whether the early drop in brain function could lead to conditions such as dementia.
And the NHS Commissioning Board has a series of regional offices (to provide oversight on the ground) and strategic networks (to provide expert advice to CCGs in areas such as dementia, heart disease and cancer).
She said that it guarantees "free personal care for around 280, 000 people suffering from conditions such as serious dementia and Parkinson's disease".
It will help people with conditions such as autism and dementia and follows the example of similar schemes in Holland.
They warn that the elderly and those with diseases or disabilities such as deafness or dementia have particular problems finding a dentist.
But it also showed that support for medical research into illnesses which affected people in old age, such as arthritis, dementia and strokes, was not a priority.
One good example: the 330, 000 Americans who are confined to bed or unable to talk as a result of severe dementia, such as that caused by Alzheimer's disease.
They are frail, often suffer from multiple chronic diseases (such as heart failure, dementia, or diabetes), and are impoverished.
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Many have multiple chronic conditions, such as heart disease and dementia.
The ageing population and advances in medicine mean more and more people are living with chronic long-term conditions, such as heart disease and dementia, for which there is no cure.
And while hospice once was almost exclusively for cancer patients (where such a prognosis could be relatively accurate), increasingly patients have illnesses such as heart disease and dementia where it is much harder to project lifespan.
O-GlcNAc is essential for human function, but also affects the development of diseases such as cancer, diabetes and dementia.
Elderly people in NI are given drugs such as tranquilisers and anti-dementia drugs at a much higher rate in care homes than when they are living in the community, a study has found.
They've also been linked to brain function and mental health benefits such as lowered rates of depression and dementia.
About two-thirds of the NHS budget is spent on people with long-term conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes and dementia.
They suffer from chronic diseases, such as heart or lung disease or dementia, and death is often not unexpected (by them or their physicians).
For example, people with conditions that vary over time, such as bi-polar disorder or dementia, can currently, in theory, be excluded from care because of the contradictory way regulations are written.
You may also be referred to a specialist in diagnosing dementia or memory disorders, such as a neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist or geriatrician.
The Foresight team also looked at what science could do to buffer against mental ill health, such as spotting and treating learning difficulties in children or developing biomarkers for dementia earlier in older people.
Instead, she argued, money should be spent on interventions which genuinely relieve suffering such as cataract operations, joint replacement surgery and personal care for people with dementia.
However, unlike smoking, sedentary lifestyles lead to more than 40 medically recognised chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, mental illness, dementia, some cancers.
Perhaps if the head of some respected scientific organization made such claims, we would chalk up the ridiculous predictions as an early sign of dementia and mercifully decline to report the predictions so as not to embarrass the person as he or she checks out of the real world.
Meera Syal and Jo Brand joined one of the first groups, playing "dementia fact bingo" and testing their memory of everyday objects, such as the features on a one-penny piece.
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Becoming socially withdrawn due to hearing loss - such as not going out or struggling with conversation - has been linked to cognitive decline and dementia in the past.
Researchers at Rush Medical University found that mentally challenging activities, such as reading and playing chess, may have a protective effect on the brain and help lower risk of dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Rankin and her team focused on a a specific type of neurodegenerative disease called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a group of disorders in which patients can experience behavioral symptoms such as personality changes, a loss of inhibition and social tact as well as language difficulties, such as an inability to understand words.
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