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Home care or domiciliary care is supportive care provided to patients in the comfort of their own home. More elderly people and patients all over the world have begun to prefer remaining at ...
Mental health issues generally pose a daunting challenge to patients, their families, carers, mental health professionals and society at large. Of all mental aberrations, Schizophrenia is ...
Medindia interviewed Dr. Mallika Tiruvadanan, a Palliative Care expert who heads Lakshmi Pain and Palliative Care Clinic, a charitable trust that combines science with compassion to rel...
World Alzheimer's Day falls on September 21 st , 2009 , embodying the theme, 'Diagnosing Dementia: See It Sooner'. Ignorance about the facts of the disease wreaks havoc in ...
September 21 st 2008 ’No Time to Lose, Care for the Caregivers’ World Alzheimer’s Day falls on September 21st, 2008 . The theme for this year ‘No Time to Lose ’ recognizes the r...
Have you come across anyone who has cooked a meal, but has forgotten to eat it? Welcome to the world of Dementia! Dementia (Latin: de-‘ apart’;mens-‘mind’) refers to the progressive ...
‘Senior Citizens’ is a term used to refer to the members of an age group who represent the passing, as well as the present, generation. In the past, they were venerated for their wisdom....
Alzheimer’s disease is an ‘unforgettable’ experience. For most of us, taking a trip down memory lane could be nostalgic, evoking myriad emotions, as we recall with ease the many experiences ...
A team of doctors led by Mona Raghothaman of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore in southern India, has made a strong plea for all out nationwide efforts to...
The entire world is a stage, and we are mere actors, echoed The Bard, eons ago. As the curtains go down slowly for those in the grips of this crippling disease, today on World Alzheimer’s d...
'Should the physician ever speed the end and so reduce the patient's suffering? No. Custom, tradition, experience, social sanction, law, and religion are unanimous in this, and rightly so. E...
Scene 1: 2000, A landlord visits a home in Lexilip, Co Kildare, to enquire about the rent and he finds the three middle aged sisters- Ruth, Catherine and Josephine Feeney and their elderly...
London: Regular exercise can keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay according to a recent study done in the UK. Exercise flushes out the toxic chemical that causes this degenerative disease o...
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