New research suggests that Americans' risk for developing dementia over a lifetime may be higher than previously thought.
Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for a long time, and he is a great guy. However, when it comes to my 80-year-old mom, it’s another story.
I’ve tried everything,” Dr. Nathaniel Chin, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine, told The Post.
"Mom has dementia and says many things that are incorrect or confusing. My husband constantly corrects her in a condescending way."
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In a study published in the journal Neurology, Dr. Daniel Wang, an assistant professor of medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and his team report that people who eat more processed red meat had a 14% higher risk of developing dementia over more than four decades that those who consumed minimal amounts.
Several studies have suggested that a diet rich in sugar and saturated fat can contribute to inflammation, potentially damaging brain cells and raising dementia risk.
We asked nutrition experts how consumers can make informed and healthy choices about eating red meat.
Sometimes people react rudely or impatiently when they are scared. If your husband truly loves your mom, maybe he has a lot of sad and scared feelings about her dementia and does not know how to properly deal with those feelings. Point this out to him, and ask him to be kind to her — right or wrong — when she gets things confused.
The number of Americans who will develop dementia—a progressive decline in memory, thinking skills, communication, and overall cognitive ability—is estimated to double by 2060, from 514,000 new cases each year in 2020 to one million cases each year by 2060, according to a study in Nature Medicine.