Just 31% of PCTs that responded to APPG on Dementia said they had allocated their proportion of £150m ringfenced for the condition (Source: Management in Practice)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

More than two thirds of primary care trusts (PCTs) in England are unable to say if or how they spent money allocated to them under the National Dementia Strategy for England. (Source: Alzheimers Society)

Health trusts are spending money intended for dementia on other things, an MPs’ report has said. (Source: HSJ)

Health trusts are spending money intended for dementia on other things, an MPs’ report has said. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)

More than two thirds of primary care trusts (PCTs) in England are unable to say if or how they spent money allocated to them under the National Dementia Strategy for England. Only 31 per cent (22) of PCTs who responded to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia said they had allocated their proportion of the £150million made available by the government last year. The same percentage could not say how dementia strategy funds had been spent as they were inseparable from other funding... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

PCTs may have diverted a large proportion of £150m in funding for dementia services to other priorities, an investigation by MPs has found. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Independent Nurse News)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

RICHARD only used to speak to reveal what he wanted for dinner or to say that he was going to bed – his will to communicate destroyed by dementia. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)

CAMPAIGNERS have warned of a "dementia timebomb", with the number of people with conditions such as Alzheimer's set to increase dramatically. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)

Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee report Improving dementia services in England - an interim report, Janet Davies, Executive Director of Nursing and Service Delivery at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: "It is deeply concerning that dementia care is still not being dealt with as a priority. Training and education for healthcare staff working in all settings is absolutely vital if care for dementia patients is to improve. Greater investment is also needed for specialist dementia nurses, who provide invaluable support for dementia patients, their carers and families... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee report Improving dementia services in England - an interim report, Janet Davies, Executive Director of Nursing and Service Delivery at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: "It is deeply concerning that dementia care is still not being dealt with as a priority... (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)

Commons Public Accounts Committee report claims there is a lack of direction, despite government vows to make it a care priority (Source: Management in Practice)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

18F-FDG PET identified the average increase amyloid-beta plaques among individuals whose mothers had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease compared to others with no family history of dementia, according to research findings published online March 15 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Source: Health Imaging News)

Use your mind to fight dementia. We are seeking Trustees who are forward thinking, have a breadth of vision which will enable them to make judgements about strategy for the coming 2 - 5 years. (Source: Alzheimers Society)

Major U.S. trial will enroll thousands to examine links between hypertension, Alzheimer's Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Dementia, High Blood Pressure (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

A family history of Alzheimer's is one of the biggest risk factors for developing the memory-robbing disease, which affects more than 5 million Americans and is the most common form of senile dementia. Researchers have found the likely basis for this heightened familial risk -- especially from the maternal side. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

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A team of scientists from SLU in Uppsala and University of Cambridge have discovered a molecule that can prevent a toxic protein involved Alzheimer's disease from building up in the brain. They found that in test tube studies the molecule not only prevents the protein from forming clumps but can also reverse this process. Then, using fruit flies with Alzheimer's disease, they showed that the same molecule effectively "cures" the insects of the disease. Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder linked to protein misfolding and aggregation, or clumping... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

A team of scientists from SLU in Uppsala and University of Cambridge have discovered a molecule that can prevent a toxic protein involved Alzheimer's disease from building up in the brain. They found that in test tube studies the molecule not only prevents the protein from forming clumps but can also reverse this process... (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)

The emergence of multiple new brain imaging technologies and the combined application of these new approaches is helping to create new insights into aging and Alzheimer's disease. One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the deposition of amyloid beta protein in clumps or "plaques" within the brain. These plaques can be measured in humans with PET scans that use a chemical marker or radiotracer called 11C-PIB. It was long thought that the formation of plaques injured and perhaps even caused the death of nerve cells in the brain... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

A family history of Alzheimer's is one of the biggest risk factors for developing the memory-robbing disease, which affects more than 5 million Americans and is the most common form of senile dementia. Now an international collaboration led by NYU Langone Medical Center researchers has found the likely basis for this heightened familial risk - especially from the maternal side... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)