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Dementia Mortality Tied to Olive Oil Consumption

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(MedPage Today) -- Higher olive oil intake was associated with a lower risk of dementia-related mortality, a prospective study of 90,000 healthcare professionals showed. Eating at least 7 g of olive oil daily -- about a half tablespoon --.

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Warning Letters Safely Lowered Antipsychotic Prescribing in Dementia

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(MedPage Today) -- Overprescribing warning letters modestly cut the use of antipsychotic medications without apparent repercussion in people with dementia, a secondary analysis of a randomized trial indicated. Compared with primary care physicians.

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Dementia May Be Underdiagnosed in States With Motor Vehicle Reporting Mandates

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(MedPage Today) -- Mandating clinicians to report drivers with dementia may be associated with missed or delayed dementia diagnoses, a cross-sectional study of primary care providers suggested. Clinicians in states that required them to report.

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Dementia Predicted 10 Years Before Diagnosis

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(MedPage Today) -- Blood protein profiles predicted future dementia in healthy adults, a large longitudinal study showed. Blood samples from over 50,000 people in the U.K. Biobank showed that four proteins -- glial fibrillary acidic protein.

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Antipsychotics in Dementia Tied to Wider Range of 'Serious Harms'

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(MedPage Today) -- Use of antipsychotics in dementia patients was associated with an increased risk for a wider range of adverse outcomes than previously acknowledged, a population-based matched cohort study from the U.K. In the analysis.

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People with Dementia and Their Care Partners Have an Increased Loneliness Risk

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The study highlights how the experience of loneliness for care partners of people with dementia changes relationship roles throughout the dementia trajectory.

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Audrey Chun, MD: Recommendations on Statins, Connecting Dementia to Hearing Loss

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Chun spoke in this interview segment about more recommendations for internal medicine physicians to give older adults related to aging, dementia, and statin use.

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