[ { "post_id": "499", "post_category_id": "1", "post_title": "Alzheimer's disease starting to be considered a treatable condition - study", "post_content_short": "Alzheimer's disease is starting to be considered as a treatable and preventable condition, a major new report says.\n

\n\tThe World Alzheimer Report 2026, released today from Alzheimer's Disease International, says despite years of slow progress, clinical trials\n\tare now on the brink of diagnostic and medical breakthroughs.\n\n

\n\tThe number of people living with dementia globally is projected to surpass 139 million by 2050, the report said, becoming one of the leading\n\tcauses of death throughout the world.\n\n

But while a cure is still far away, medical research is radically shifting the understanding of the disease.\n

\n\t\"I think for a long time there's been a fairly nihilistic view in the dementia world, that it is something that can just happen as you age\n\tfor example, and that we can't do anything about,\" neurologist, neuroscientist and Alzheimers NZ spokesperson Dr Campbell Le Heron said.\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.ageconcernauckland.org.nz\/media\/website_posts\/499\/Screenshot-2026-09-21-150707.png", "post_content_type": "url", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/health\/1483456\/alzheimer-s-disease-starting-to-be-considered-a-treatable-condition-study", "post_date": "2026-09-21 03:11:02" }, { "post_id": "498", "post_category_id": "1", "post_title": "How learning te reo Māori in her 70's transformed one Pākehā grandmother's view of Aotearoa", "post_content_short": "\"Open your heart.\"\n

\n\tThose are the kupu one Pākehā grandmother hopes will encourage more New Zealanders to take their first step toward te reo Māori and te ao\n\tMāori.\n\n

\n\tGael Finlayson-Davis, grandmother of six and great-grandmother of two, now in her 70s, became an unexpected symbol of this year's Matariki\n\tcelebrations after speaking\n\tthrough tears at the national hautapu ceremony<\/a>\n\tat Takaparawhau.\n\n