When your memory takes its last breath – How is India dealing with dementia?

Apr 25, 2019, at 01:22 pm

At the Delhi, New Friends Colony, there was a Gupta family where there was someone battling with dementia. The entire family initially did not pay heed to it when the patriarch of the family, who was a bright, talkative and joyous Virendra Gupta, had all of a sudden stopped speaking. He started showing his short-tempered and irritable behavior and his family members thought that old age was responsible for this change. After a few days, Mr. Gupta failed to button his own shirt and lost his abilities to get dressed on his own. Though he was mostly dressed scarcely, one fine day he left his house almost naked. Then there was a time when he totally forgot how he should use his hands while eating his food and all this took place within a time period of 20 days!

Violence in childhood leads to accelerated aging, study finds

Nov 09, 2018, at 04:29 pm

Washington, Nov 9 (IBNS): A study led by the University of Washington finds that children who are exposed to  violence tend to age faster.