Close Relationship With Caregivers Slows Alzheimer's

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Close Relationship With Caregivers Slows Alzheimer's

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A group of Utah State University researchers and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and Boston University have demonstrated that the rate of clinical progression of dementia may be slowed by a close relationship with one's caregiver.

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