The Telegraph publishes an article today relating to some research carried out in the US which links an initial episode of delirium at the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s with a more speedy development of the incidence of dementia. “The cognitive rate of decline was found to be three times more rapid among those Alzheimer’s patients who [...]

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