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Immaculately dressed elderly men and women shuffle into the main hall and take their seats at the tables, some smiling and jabbering away, others more subdued with a vacant look in their eyes, as they begin their day at an Alzheimer’s day care center in Jerusalem. “Staying at home kills these people,” said Motti Zelikovitch, director-general of Melabev, Israel leading organization caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. “The center is better because you’re forced to get out of their home, you have to dress nicely. You come. You see your friends. Even if you don’t remember your friend from one day to the next, you see them and that helps.” One-by-one, the men and women are led to a computer room where they sit in front of a screen and play a new game designed to maintain and improve memory in people afflicted early- and middle-stage Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer's disease causes loss of memory and other cognitive functions, and, ultimately, death.
“You’re going to build a circle with three pieces, so which piece goes over here?” an instructor asks one patient. The woman, an elderly immigrant from Switzerland, begins using the computer to assemble the circle. While there is no cure for Alzheimer’s, Israeli researchers have developed a computer game that say can slow down the progress of the disease. It’s called Savyon, and Israel hopes to export it to treat Alzheimer’s patients around the world. It is for innovations like these that the Alzheimer’s Foundation International (AFI) has come to Israel. The organization recently signed an agreement to include Israel’s Alzheimer’s Foundation as one of its members in an effort to boost research and share best practices related to treatment and care. Read more: jpost.com
“You’re going to build a circle with three pieces, so which piece goes over here?” an instructor asks one patient. The woman, an elderly immigrant from Switzerland, begins using the computer to assemble the circle. While there is no cure for Alzheimer’s, Israeli researchers have developed a computer game that say can slow down the progress of the disease. It’s called Savyon, and Israel hopes to export it to treat Alzheimer’s patients around the world. It is for innovations like these that the Alzheimer’s Foundation International (AFI) has come to Israel. The organization recently signed an agreement to include Israel’s Alzheimer’s Foundation as one of its members in an effort to boost research and share best practices related to treatment and care. Read more: jpost.com
Green tea and Alzheimers
The researchers explain that both green and black tea are thought to be protective as they are high in polyphenols, chemicals that protect cells by neutralising toxic free radicals. Read more: bramleytoday.co.uk
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