The World Health Organization has estimated that the number of people worldwide with the most severe form of memory loss–dementia–is expected to triple by 2050 to more than 100 million adults. Neuropsychologists at Baycrest Health Sciences are working on getting ahead ...

  London Health Sciences Centre is the first hospital in the region to implement a tool to assess the acute care oral health of inpatients, and a guideline for staff implementing oral care. The Clinical Neurological Sciences (CNS) Unit at University ...

Health care professionals across Canada have a new tool to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The first Canadian Guidelines on Parkinson’s Disease were launched, in July 2012, by Parkinson Society Canada, in partnership with leading Canadian movement ...

The launch of the new Life After Stroke website, by the Canadian Stroke Network, is making high-quality stroke recovery resources accessible to stroke patients and their families nationwide. The much anticipated website, www.lifeafterstroke.com, is focused on helping to provide individuals and ...

There may not yet be a cure for Alzheimer’s, but a new solution to help caregivers cope with family members who have the disease is now becoming available. Home Instead Senior Care is launching customized training for family caregivers who ...

Two years is a long time to wait between the first symptom of dementia and a diagnosis – precious time when 62-year-old Lou Grieve might have received medication and made plans for her future. But the time lapse wasn’t because she and ...

As a lead hand in the security department at the Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre in Hamilton Ontario, Jason regularly assists patients with dementia, an age-related disease that affects cognitive ability. Often, individuals with dementia become so confused or frightened ...

“No Brain, no Pain” is the kind of statement that could sound politically incorrect on first impression; however, it is 100 per cent accurate from a neurofunctional standpoint. It represents both the paradox of pain and the neuro-reality of pain. ...

A new website has been launched to help teens and their healthy parent cope with unresolved tragedy after early-onset dementia strikes the other parent. Dr. Tiffany Chow is the driving force behind When Dementia is in the House. An expert in ...

Researchers at Montreal hospitals were in the forefront of an international team that recently announced a breakthrough discovery in understanding some forms of leukodystrophy, a debilitating and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease that appears in childhood. Their research found that a ...