Etiket: Dementia
INTERVIEW. Rosa Rademakers is world top in dementia research: “I just like to do puzzles”
Her eureka moment came when she discovered a gene mutation that explains a rare form of dementia. The international top career of brain researcher Rosa Rademakers (43) has since then…
Deceased Sparta icon Wout Holverda got dementia due to football career
Former football player Wout Holverda (63) who died in December suffered from serious dementia due to his sports career. Specialists from the Amsterdam UMC have concluded this after they examined…
Dutch former football player Wout Holverda got dementia due to sports career
Former football player Wout Holverda (63) who died in December suffered from serious dementia due to his sports career. This is what specialists from the Amsterdam UMC, who examined the…
Dieter Coppens and eight people with young-onset dementia open the doors of ‘Restaurant Misverstand’ on March 16
Dieter Coppens (44) will open the doors of the new ‘Restaurant Misverstand’ on Eén from 16 March: the first restaurant in Belgium where the entire staff has been diagnosed with…
Care is often insufficiently prepared for a migrant with dementia
By no means all general practitioners and hospitals are ready to diagnose dementia in the rapidly growing group of older migrants. Experts identify this in conversation with NU.nl. For example,…
The healthier the body, the better the brain | 1Limburg
What is the influence of lifestyle changes on the brain? Five Dutch research centres, including Maastricht University, will conduct joint research into this. The question is whether a healthy diet,…
Neglect in the Geraardsbergen residential care center: “A basket full of pills for residents with dementia”
Illegal operation of a care institution and neglect: that is what the managers of cohousing project Alegria in Geraardsbergen have been accused of, who have since been arrested. Doctor Ignace…
Jettie (34) has to learn to live with long covid: “I sometimes seem like dementia” | Abroad
What?According to the World Health Organization WHO, you have lung covid if you still have symptoms three months after infection that last for at least two months. There are dozens…
Dementia research VIB can delay disease course with treatment
A clinical trial is underway in the US and Australia on a new gene therapy for people with frontal lobe dementia. After Alzheimer’s disease, it is the most common form…