Home health aides, personal care attendants, and other paid caregivers can supplement support from family caregivers to help people with dementia live safely at home and in the community. A new NIA-funded study found that only 1 in 4 community‐dwelling individuals with dementia received paid care, highlighting the need to make it more accessible. Even […]
Setting fitness goals can help you stay motivated to be physically active. Goals are most useful when they are specific, realistic, and important to you. Your specific fitness goal should be simple and manageable. For example, you may want to take a walk every day. Be realistic about time commitments and ability. Your short-term fitness
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Special Alert: COVID-19 Research Opportunities NIA is excited to support the launch of Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics, or RADx, to catalyze the scientific community to improve COVID-19 testing technologies, capacity, and accessibility. As one of the four RADx components, RADx-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) will establish a network of community-engaged projects to improve access to and acceptance of
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One donated brain can make a huge impact, providing information for hundreds of Alzheimer’s and related dementias research studies. By studying the brains of people who have died — both those who had a brain disorder and those who had healthy brains — researchers learn more about how types of dementia affect the brain and
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As we entered 2020, Mental Health America (MHA) was gearing up for yet another amazing Annual Conference in June in the heart of Washington, DC. The venue, programs and speakers were all in place to make it one of the best events yet. Then our entire world literally changed in weeks as the COVID-19 pandemic raced across
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