GUN SAFETY - Gun Ownership vs Dementia

"How families of gun owners with dementia grapple with safety" PBS NewsHour 6/25/2018

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SUMMARY:  By 2050 as many as 12 million people with dementia may live in homes with guns -- a fact that is prompting doctors, researchers and family members to ask how potential tragedies can be prevented.  John Yang reports.

MUSIC - Reaches the 'Unreachable'

"Music helps people in nursing home once considered unreachable" PBS NewsHour 1/5/2018

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SUMMARY:  A California nursing home is using music therapy with residents suffering from dementia.  In collaboration with INewSource news service in San Diego, Joanne Faryon reports on how music is reaching those once considered unreachable.

HEALTH - Declines in Dementia Due to Lifestyle

"Researchers See Decline in Dementia, Offering Optimism for Power of Lifestyle" PBS Newshour 7/17/2013

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GWEN IFILL (Newshour):  New research suggests there may be some good news in the struggle against dementia.

Two recently released studies show severe memory loss declining among healthier and better educated populations.  In England and in Wales, dementia rates over the last two decades have dropped by 25 percent among those 65 and older.

And in Denmark, the percentage of elderly whose cognitive abilities were severely impaired also dropped between 1998 and 2010.

In the United States, about five million people have Alzheimer's disease, but that number is expected to rise sharply as baby boomers age.

For more, we're joined by Dr. Murali Doraiswamy, director of the Neurocognitive Disorders Program at the Duke University School of Medicine.