Researchers in a multi-institutional effort will study the potential link between chemical exposure and its impact on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease risk. The four higher education institutions recently received a grant worth $11 million from the National Institutes of Health to analyze almost four decades of blood and urine data from 5,000 people, tracking the […]
A new smartphone application could help memory care professionals diagnose and therefore treat dementia sooner, New research, led by the University of California San Francisco and recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), showed that a specially designed app could detect early signs of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in people who were genetically […]
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco say they have found a new way to use artificial intelligence to spot indicators of Alzheimer’s up to seven years before symptoms appear. Researchers utilized a tool called Scalable Precision Medicine Oriented Knowledge Engine, or SPOKE, developed at UCSF “identify patterns and potential molecular targets for therapy.” […]
Assisted living operators may soon start interacting more with physician assistants and nurse practitioners—if physician assistants can overcome certain barriers to entry in the long-term care (LTC) industry. That’s according to a new report from the University of California at San Francisco, which examined job postings for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) in 2014 and […]
