Alzheimers

Earl of Sandwich’s touching memoirs as he chronicles his father’s decline into Alzheimer’s disease

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MEMOIR Mapperton Moments  by John Montagu (Skyscraper £10, 224 pp) Leaking house, leaking pond, leaking puppy, leaking father… these touching diaries of John Montagu (now the 11th Earl of Sandwich), chronicling his father’s slow decline into Alzheimer’s disease and death over eight years, have them all, in dripping abundance. Drip, drip, drip. It’s January 1987 … Read more

Simple blood test can swiftly detect Alzheimer’s in people who visit their GP with worsening memory

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A simple blood test can detect Alzheimer’s disease early in people who visit their doctor with worsening memory.  Scientists in the US say the test could be used by practitioners within five years, and is more accurate and quicker than current methods.   The tool measures levels of a protein called tau in the blood, which … Read more