we understandably focus on what is lost with dementia.otogenic. the world does not suddenly go dark for people with dementia. the deadline is gradual. this experiment is looking at how it affects balance. and there is still so much to learn about how dementia affects the body and the mind. fergus walsh, bbc news.

gke all those affected by dementia, he wanater public understanding. >> talk to people who got dementiaif they were human beings.t don' frightened of them. second, we need a lot more stresearch to try to undd what this horrible disease is -- these horrible diseases are about and what might be done. fergus: is this art or science or a bit of both? we understandably focus on what is lost with dementia. but what is retained of the creative mind is vital and to be cherished. the world does not suddenly go dark for people with dementia. the decline is gradual. this experiment is looking at how it affects balance, and there isch still so o learn about how dementia affects the body and the mind. fergus walsh, bbc news. jane: not every wedding goes off thout a hitch. saturday's royal wedding is no different. the bride, meghan markle, is said to be saddened that her dither won't be attenng. nicholas witchell has the astest. nicholtime to end the uncertainty and focus on the wedding. harry and meghanwiere driven to sor castle for a private rehearsal in st. george's chapel as it was confirmed that

many of us have a relative who sadly has dementia or got dementia, a common criticism is that they don'tarly diagnosis is really because early diagnosis is really important even though there is no cure. absolutely. like any other problem the earlier you know there is a problem the more you can do about it. we have pharmacological solutions and non—pharmacological solutions and non—pharmacological solutions which can help the patients to keep their cognitive function for longer periods. they can be less dependent on people around them but also a lot of things like brain training games, exercise to reduce cardiovascular risks which basically increases the risk... you have clinical trials at the moment and the nhs will bring this in, for over 55 is, hopefully? and the nhs will bring this in, for over55 is, hopefully? we and the nhs will bring this in, for over 55 is, hopefully? we want to do this and not earlier than it is done today and if we can push back 15—20 yea rs before today and if we can push back 15—20 years before the patients lose their memory, the idea is to use this as pa rt m

many of us have a relative who sadly has dementia or got dementia, a common criticism is that they don't get it diagnosed early enough and this is where your test comes in really because early diagnosis is really because early diagnosis is really important even though there is no cure. absolutely. like any

. >>> information on what could double the factor for dementia. coming up at 10:45 pm, even a slight concussion could lead to dementia. >>> they are back into the nba eastern conference chip, the cleveland cavaliers. mark will be -- eastern conference championships. that is the cavaliers, mark will be back with more information on that. >>> new at 10 pm, a san jose police officer who is muslim is filing a lawsuit saying he endured years of harassment due to his culture. he is lebanese american he said since joining department in 1997 he received racial taunts and was given nicknames like the beirut bomber. they would make explosion noises when he would walk by two and -- to insinuate he was a suicide bomber pico -- bomber. he request -- he requested a transfer. he is asking for damages and future loss and pay and emotional distress and it is amount accumulating into $6 million. the department will not comment on personnel matters. >>> this is part of a three-day strike at campuses state wide. hospital workers are among those striking and this has

and he has dementia. of this whole experiment? i am really elated by what i have seen. my dad is very outgoing, and he tries to be sociable. although his tools have been taken away from him, he cannot communicate as well as he used to, the release tries to engage with people and reclaim some power. —— he really tries. it is sad to see him do that. he has a stock room of frasers, he will say, are you winning, or nice to see you, to see you nice, or bingo. and a lot of people don't know how to deal with it. i took him into a doctor's waiting room a week ago, and the first thing he said when he walked in is, bingo! and everybody looked around am embarrassed. one man raised his eyes to heaven, and it hurt so much, because they did not understand. and what i have seen is the children saying bingo to my dad, and loving it. he isjust david who says bingo, not somebody who is weird or frightening or strange and i have just accepted it and that empowers my dad and that is what i want. it has clearly had a massive

we understandably focus on what is lost with dementia. but what is retained of the creative mind is also vital, and to be cherished. you are very photogenic. the world does not suddenly go dark for people with dementia. the deadline is gradual. this experiment is looking at how it affects balance. and there is still so much to learn about how dementia affects the body and the mind. fergus walsh, bbc news. newsnight is coming up on bbc two. here's kirsty. she is a campaigning feminist and spokeswoman for human rights and racial equality. on saturday she will marry into the house of windsor. will meghan markle be free to speak her mind? that is on bbc two. here on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm azi farni. coming up. southgate defends his world cup 23 though one of those left out is not happy! we think they are the best players we have available. we think they could be very exciting now and even more exciting in the future. man city manager pep guardiola signs up for another three years. an

>> that importance to identify those changes in the related dementia early is critical with the best opportunity to intervene at an early point to track success or failure to measure biomarkers is critical. the definition is a publication that suggested for the pathological definition based on plaques and tangles there is a set of biomarkers that are standardized can assess the cross study and in doing so vigorously colonize the results of multiple efforts and more quickly understand which biomarkers are the best predictor and out of a response to treatment or not. those studies that senator blunt referred to right now those biomarkers that are most successful are either imaging working extremely well that is cumbersome and expensive for cerebral spinal analysis which works but now the goal is to have fluid biomarkers to take the advantage of blood and serum or a pattern of molecules allowing us to screen many people through those longitudinal studies. >> doctor collins, with the leadership of senator blunt and others we have had success in large part because you have made a case for

but memories often fade with age dementia patients in particular remember less and less of what they've experienced but now virtual reality films can help them reconnect with their past. the way back the project was initiated by anti gun nuts and on cold members of their families had suffered from alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia it was one of frustration really in the sense of i wish they'd been something you're around at the time of help me more from this through a difficult period of time. we also showed photographs and played music and using the yard it seemed like a really interesting way to perhaps create a memory or or listen to the from memory and spark a bigger conversation as if you are a smartphone and a headset may just come forward that's all that's needed to take seniors on a trip down memory lane. the money used to make the film about the coronation was raised by crowdfunding it's helped this elderly woman for a cool part of her youth. who sings and happen to often know. very privileged people. they found lots of fun. and was lovely. while producing the fil

, which is a -- dementia. not understanding what is happening, being angry. i think my anger and maybe people with dementia or old people in general with dementia are angry because they don't understand what is happening, because i didn't. i didn't understand what they're thinking, what they're feeling. maybe i didn't care. but i think i cared some. anger is also emotion. i lost all of the emotions in this except for anger. so as if anger was this primitive kind of emotion that stays, and probably is localized to a different part of the brain that our higher cognitive functions, which are most lie localized to these knew -- neocourt cortical region is lost. we don't have medication for dementia and we don't for a majority of mental illnesses. we have drugs that have some but not the others. but they -- they aren't cures. they're not cures because be basically do not understand the mechanism. so we cannot design new drugs if we don't understand what the problem is. but many researchers are working very hard to

study -- dementia. the study focused on veterans but the results could apply to anybody. >> reporter: the u.s. study looked to 250 thousand u.s. veterans and found that the risk for dementia rows in veterans. >> even mild injuries can increase your risk of developing ghen that later on. -- dimentia later on. and that's a scary thing to hear. >> reporter: if the brain injury is moderate to severe such as a skull fracture, the risk increases 4 times. >> it doesn't surprise me. the military in general, before you even combat, it's a very physical job. >> reporter: kimberly flaherty severed in the u.s. army from 1970 to 1990. >> veterans themselves may not identify with it. they should be checked and should know the symptoms. >> reporter: experts say early symptoms of dimentia include memory loss that impacts ability to do daily tasks and confusion in familiar places and difficulty in speaking and writing. >> you can't change the past but do everything you can to reduce the risk of having another injury. >>

in with this major effort to decrease the public health problem, dementia in our country. most patients who have dementia are diagnosed with alzheimer's disease but especially in the elderly when one looks at the brain one more often than not will find multiple different things are going on and those -- the two areas that are most common are the inclusion of what we call louie body disease in people who have dementia, diagnosis, alzheimer's. they have alzheimer's changes but also have the signature of pack stops disease which is a aggregates so understanding the dementia that occurs in park sans patients who have it for a long time is a focus we've been able to pursue more aggressiv y aggressively. the other area is the combination of vascular disease in people who are diagnosed with alzheimer's disease and this is, i think, incredibly important to understand because we have made strong progress over the last 70 years in decreasing the risk of stroke which is the most common consequence of vascular disease in the brain but it is also incredibly common in people who have de

she says the new study does not prove these drugs cause dementia. even so -- >> you have to measure the risk and benefit of any medication you take. >> reporter: she recommends patients review all prescription drugs and over- the-counter medications. >> go over each medication one by one asking how anticolinergic it is, if at all. >> reporter: there was no risk with sleep aids. >> i don't think they're off the hook. >> reporter: previous research shows compelling evidence the long term use of these drugs may be problematic. the active ingredient found in benadryl and other over-the- counter sleep aids -- >> this drug gets into the brain and sits in the brain for a while. it would be better to use another medication if it's possible. >> reporter: patients should not stop taking any medication without first talking to their doctors. >> some of them may have residual symptoms or other adverse effects. >> reporter: to reduce the chances of dementia, exercise, keep a healthy weight, don't smoke or drink too much alcohol, and keep a good social network, s

we found a person with dementia at least twice as long as a person with dementia.th it ourselves. you are faced with some difficult decisions about how to come up with the money. we had to pull his money together. we had to pull his money together. we are in the process of selling his house to pay to his care. but he died before the sale of the house went through. more or less, all of his savings have gone. all this stress, you are dealing with money as well is everything else. he deteriorated quite rapidly. his dementia really did start them. deteriorated quite rapidly. his dementia really did start themm is getting frail and frail and more confused. when he was in the care home, he fell again and that led to his death. it's hard to step aside from the emotions involved with this. as you look back on it now, can you see points in time where somebody doing something would have made a big difference? anybody, somebody who come up and say right, what about if we can help your dad with this, we were literally left in the dark, shut the door, sort yourselves out, hurry

and major effort to decrease dementia in our country those patients who have dementia diagnosed with alzheimer's especially in the elderly looking at the braid why more often than not we find different things are going on and those two areas that are most common are the inclusion that people have dementia diagnosis all the time or alzheimer changes but also the signature parkinson's that is in aggregate so to understand the contribution that it is just to alzheimer's dementia but also that causes parkinson's so now we are focusing what we can pursue much more aggressively. also the combination of vascular disease people that were diagnosed with alzheimer's. i think this is incredibly important to understand because we have made strong progress over the last seven years to decrease the rest of stroke which is the most common symptom of vascular disease in the brain but also incredibly common for dementia diagnosis so we have been working with the national institute of aging on projects to track the health of several vascular systems in the brain with the hope that if we could be more

and it is to address their wishes for dementia care. one of the big problems that often happens is without specific instructions, feeding continues, even when the person with no longer swallow. and that feeding results in aspiration of food and all kinds of problems that require emergency hospital treatment. and so i think that it's very important that we reach out to seniors in -- that we're serving and anybody that we know at any age to look at setting up their own requirements so that doesn't happen to them unless it's what they want. and i think that it's very important. >> i agree. and one of the focuses of "reimagine week" two weeks ago was really about advanced care planning and making sure that everybody has that in place. so i agree. it's really important. >> thank you. any other comments or questions? commissioner wallenberg. >> thank you. with regard to the ombudsman program. so it talks about the lgbtq rights and long-term care facilities that we're looking at rolling out that training. i'm just curious on what the timeline

dementia is like a cruel game.people and they are more mindful of some of the problems people face, that could be a big practical help? absolutely. when i moved into my village, i live in a row of similar houses and i met my neighbour thinking my house was his house. that was our first meeting. if he had been angry or aggressive at that point, i might not have gone out again, because i would have been worried about finding my house. because he was so supportive, we have a wonderful time now. what makes a massive difference is the kindness of strangers. yes. some days are really tough. when does that happen? just being mindful of my dad's behaviour. he can do some strange things that normal people wouldn't do. it is somebodyjust going with that and not acting weird around bad. it be in dad's normality because his normality is different to ours. how difficult was it to adjust yourself, simon. you have had to think differently so wendy's daughters now track her because they wa nt to daughters now track her because the

we have been interested in whether tbi can lead to dementia. so many questions that we do not know. we studied almost 400,000 veterans. all different ages. we tried to see whether having a concussion, defined in certain ways, led to increased risk of dementia. we did -- low and behold we found that it did. the most important finding is that if you have a concussion, even if you do not lose consciousness, you can feel out of it or have memory loss. even that increases risk of getting dementia by two times. >> who do you want this to connect with? >> what we really want to do is prevent any kind of traumatic brain injury or concussion. you cannot stress safety enough. wearing helmets, wearing your seatbelt and trying to avoid false. that is the important message. if you do have a traumatic brain injury or concussion, make sure you get medical attention. it is important to rest and try not to have one again. >> we are talking about football players that what about for the older population who are at risk of falling? does your study look at the pos

missing dementia patient is discovered... in a bay area hospital stairwell. the question tonight: ho >>> the body of this missing dementia patient is discovered in a bay area hospital stairwell. question tonight, how did she end up there? good evening. let's get to joe vasquez live at sf general tonight. joe? >> reporter: family members said they didn't want to talk about it, but they're in deep shock and grief after finding out their loved one who was missing from the hospital ground was found in a stairwell. ruby lee anderson, her family members had reported her missing last week. according to a flyer, the family reported she was suffering from dementia and went missing from sf general mental health. she was found in the stairwell of the building. hospital spokesperson says mrs. anderson was not a patient at zuckerberg hospital, but there are other clinics here on the campus that are not directly run by stuck better hospital -- zuckerberg hospital. she can elaborate on when clinic she went missing from. it's unclear how she got in the power plant, which is

the result showed the risk of dementia was the same in both groups. the head researcher says that means that anyone who has had a head injury has a higher risk. >> even mild injuries that aren't severe enough to cause a loss of consciousness can increase your risk of developing dementia later on. you know, that's kind of a scary thing for people to hear. >> now, the experts say early signs of dementia include memory loss that affects the ability to carry out a daily task, confusion, like getting lost in familiar places, and having problems speaking and writing. researchers say their study indicates more needs to be done to prevent traumatic brain injuries including always wearing a helmet when you go out biking and wear a seat belt when you're in a car. the time is 6:58. >>> some east bay high school students probably don't have good memories of their senior ball. we're talking about students from college park high school in pleasant hill. they parked their cars at school on saturday night and rode buses to the big dance in oakland. when they came bac

she was diagnosed with dementia five years ago. her daughter, yvonne, was distraught. when she was here first, i used to come out here everyday. i used to just sit down and cry. in the past year, yvonne hasn't been able to visit her mum. why? well, because yvonne has been in a detention centre. so, how long were you in yarlswwood for? for eight months. eight months? it was terrible. we are human beings. and when they want to deport anybody, they handcuff you with your hand behind you, sometimes the ladies, they take them in their nighties. yvonne was released from yarl‘s wood just a few days after this statement was published by the home office at the height of the scandal.

. >> reporter: the symptoms, hearing loss, nerve damage in the feet and dementia which begins early in life worsens and ends with an early death. >> it's a death sentence. >> reporter: no one knew what was causing it or who would get it next. >> it was unknown. nobody knew anything about it. >> reporter: rochelle's great- grandfather and grandfather both on her mother's side died from it. >> when i asked, where's my grandfather, you know, he passed away. he had the family disease.

850,000 people in the uk have dementia. among them, brenda, who is 75.heimer's affects short—term memory and balance. married for 56 yea rs, memory and balance. married for 56 years, her husband, stephen, says being open about the condition has helped both of them. we've had the diagnosis bought three years now, we've carried on living as best we can, overcoming all the difficulties. you know, we've come to terms with it. we're living with it and living through it. we're making the best of it so please don't be sad for us. so, brenda, what's your philosophy in life?” just go with the flow, what happens, happens, what doesn't happen doesn't matter. alzheimer's charities say overcoming the stigma surrounding dementia is vital and they've praised dame barbara and her husband for speaking out. fergus walsh, bbc news. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show, i'm in windsor. in our royal special, we'll give you our guide to get the best out of the most talked about wedding this year. on may the 19th, these streets are going to be absolut

it became a battle of the illness between dementia and cancer.en this ongoing issue that various governments have tried to grapple with. they talk about not being party political about it and to come toa party political about it and to come to a multilateral approach and yet we are going around in circles. to a multilateral approach and yet we are going around in circlesm is so politically toxic that when you try to solve it, we have seen it, the death tax, it is notjust one party but parties start to talk about the current solution and the opposition will always be, like, we can makea opposition will always be, like, we can make a lot of capital by criticising it but then you get problems like this. and the reality is there are people at home who will be terribly worried by stories like this. absolutely, this is what we need to recapture the spirit of tessa jowell four, to work across parties and try to reach some kind of consensus because it has been bedevilled by a party point—scoring in the past. we will head up to the top of the daily expres

it is incredibly common in people who have dementia are diagnosed with alzheimer's. with the hope that the things we already know about may prevent people from going on because we can block this contribution of the vascular component to dementia. >> thank you chairman blunt and all of you to testifying today. i have been involved with the cancer society for many years so i have seen how new treatments and new therapies have transformed the prognosis for many different types of cancers. role thatul for the nih has played in so many of those discoveries. would you are all doing is so important and i have seen it changing lives and i'm grateful for that. despite these recent innovations, my state in mississippi continues to have one of the highest cancer mortality rates. for many mississippians receiving the cutting-edge treatment would mean traveling hundreds of miles from home to a cancer center in another state which is not possible for so many patients. cancerthe national institute working to make sure are ableents like mine to participate in clinical trials and ben

found that those who suffer a traumatic brain injury were four times more likely to suffer from dementiatic move today to try to right the ship in the struggles the company has been having. musk is blocking out third- party contractors who do not have a tesla employee to bounce for the work. the number of contractors at tesla has gotten out of control, and he is going to reportedly scrub the barnacles. tesla has been known to employ hundreds of contractors at a time. we contracted tesla today for comment, but they did got -- did not get back to us. this comes after the record loss they reported for the first quarter. >>> state energy officials are said to vote on a plan that will make california the first state in the country to require solar panels on most new home construction. new homes and apartments three stories or less would be required to be fitted with solar panels. the california energy commission is expected to approve the plan in their meeting this wednesday. san francisco already requires all new buildings under 10 stories to include solar installations. if the state proposa

look at these tadpoles. 850,000 people in the uk have dementia, among them brenda, who is 75.for 56 years, her husband steven says being open about the condition has helped both of them. we've had the diagnosis for three years now, we've carried on living as best we can, overcoming all of the difficulties. we have come to terms with it. we're living with it and living through it. we're making the best of it, so please don't be sad for us. so, brenda, what's your philosophy in life. ijust go with the flow. what happens happens, what doesn't happen doesn't matter. alzheimer's charities say overcoming the stigma surrounding dementia is vital, and they have praised dame barbara and her husband for speaking out. fergus walsh, bbc news. the time is quarter past six. our top story this evening: the prime minister apologises to a libyan dissident for britain's part in his kidnap and subsequent torture by colonel gaddafi's regime. and still to come — plans to inspire a new generation of british asians to take up cricket. coming up on sportsday, andy murray's motherjudy says he is still

people with dementia or old people in general. because they don't understand what is happening. i didn't understand what they were thinking or feeling, maybe i didn't care but i think i care. anchor is also the motion. i lost all of the emotion except for anger. as if anger was a primitive kind of emotion that state and probably is localized to a different part of the brain that our higher cognitive functions which are mostly localized to neocortical regions that i lost. we don't have medications for alzheimer's, for a majority of mental illnesses, we have drugs that have some but not others but they were obscured because we do not understand the mechanism of these diseases so we cannot design new drugs if we don't understand what the problem is but many resources are working hard to do just that. >> i am so happy that you survived. my curiosity is you mentioned schizophrenia. from what i understand schizophrenia is associated with a chemical imbalance. your problems seem to be due to pressure on the brain but was there a specific reason you associate the symptoms with schizophr

this time it was ruby leander son, a patient with dementia. five years ago there were security reforms that were supposed to prevent another heartache. matt keller is live at sf general. >> reporter: reggie, this is obviously a sad and tragic outcome. her two children say their family is in deep shock. unfortunately this has happened before here in san francisco. 76-year-old ruby leander son suffered from dementia and was being treated at one of the department of public health facilities on the campus of zuckerberg general hospital. family members put out a news release two days after xi wandered off. yesterday a staff engineer found her body in the stairwell of the hospital's power plant building which is not supposed to be accessible to the general public. something similar happened five years ago, the body of 58-year-old lynn spalding was also found in a stairwell in the hospital building after she had been missing for 17 days. david perry was a good friend of spalding. >> it's just something that should never happen. the fact that it's hap

reporter: jolieke soon became friends with yoke keerdeek, who has mild dementia. she likes to talk about the olden days and her late husband. jolieke: it gives you a totally differenview of olpeople, way learninfrom them. i think that's great. especially when you are still ung, it caaffect youwhole life and how you think about older people. porter: yog and old ving in harny. it's easier than you might think. host: and now we go to thailand, for our global ideas series. animal feed cultivation is a popular source of income for many farmers here. it's about as far from organic or sustainable farming as you can get. and in places like chiang mai province, it's having a devastating effect on the local environment. our reporter florian nusch went there to meet a man doing all he can to convince local farmers of alternatives. florian: the mae cham meat market is no place for the faint-hearted. but demand for its end product, cheap meat, is growing around the world. here in thailand, the surging appetite for meat has been acmpanied by an increasen demand for low-cost ani

, which is a -- dementia. not understanding what is happening, being angry. i think my anger and maybe people with dementia or old people in general with dementia are angry because they don't understand what is happening, because i didn't. i didn't understand what they're thinking, what they're feeling. maybe i didn't care. but i think i cared some. anger is also emotion. i lost all of the emotions in this except for anger. so as if anger was this primitive kind of emotion that stays, and probably is localized to a different part of the brain that our higher cognitive functions, which are most lie localized to these knew -- neocourt cortical region is lost. we don't have medication for dementia and we don't for a majority of mental illnesses. we have drugs that have some but not the others. but they -- they aren't cures. they're not cures because be basically do not understand the mechanism. so we cannot design new drugs if we don't understand what the problem is. but many researchers are working very hard to

it is incredibly common in people who have dementia are diagnosed with alzheimer's. with the hope that the things we already know about may prevent people from going on because we can block this contribution of the vascular component to dementia. >> thank you chairman blunt and all of you to testifying today. i have been involved with the cancer society for many years so i have seen how new treatments and new therapies have transformed the prognosis for many different types of cancers. role thatul for the nih has played in so many of those discoveries. would you are all doing is so important and i have seen it changing lives and i'm grateful for that. despite these recent innovations, my state in mississippi continues to have one of the highest cancer mortality rates. for many mississippians receiving the cutting-edge treatment would mean traveling hundreds of miles from home to a cancer center in another state which is not possible for so many patients. cancerthe national institute working to make sure are ableents like mine to participate in clinical trials and ben

hospital officials say hospital officials say anderson was a dementia patient who signed herself out.ron 4's charles clifford has the story. we now know that the woman was 76-year-old ruby lee anderson. she was apparently suffered from dementia and was reported missing from sf general mental health back on may 20th. now, the health department said this afternoon she was not a patient at zuckerberg san francisco general hospital and trauma center. there are several different health facility's on this campus and she my have recieved treatment there.it's also unclear how anderson was able to gain access to the power building, which is not normally a place patients and staff go. this afternoon we were able to speak with anderson's daughter on the phone and she says the family is very upset. the hospital has also vowed to figure out how this happened. ( robin ) happened.out how this vowed to figure out how this happened. ( robin )milpitas police have arrested a suspect wanted in connection to a stabbing at a seven-11. it happened last friday afternoon on west calaveras boulevard near south

on may 20th, charlene roberts says her 76 year old mother who has dementia and two hearing aids, wentissing from the facility. and her family started a search to find her. sot we almost hired a private investigator wednesday at 1 in the afternoon, an engineer found a womans body in a locked interior stairwell at the hospitals power plant, a building only accessible to maintenance workers.ruby's family learned shortly after, it was their mother who was found dead.sot we are very concerned how this could have happened dont know how she gained access to this area and we are very concerned.the discovery of ruby's body .. drawing some comparisons to the case of lynn spalding.in 2013, lynn disappeared from the hospital and was found dead days later in a stairwell. sot there were a wide variety of corrections put in place by federal regulars and have been in place ever since.it is unclear if stairwell checks, would have happened in the power plant, because it is not part of the main hospital building.ruby's family, cannot come to terms with their loss. sot cover it is just not right (justine

we talk to people whose parents have died of dementia and when to talk about it. hello.ant to debate, not over abortion but anti—abortion protests. tomorrow, over 150 mps from different parties are putting their name to a letter to the new home secretary, sajid javid. they want him to put his personal weight behind a home office review of anti—abortion campaigns in close proximity to abortion clinics. one council has delineated an exclusion zone outside a clinic. is that what should happen elsewhere? women visiting many clinics at the moment are confronted by a mix of pickets, placards and prayers. many of them consider it harassment. but for those against abortion, this is about free speech, and offering alternatives to abortion to women. well, in the us, abortion is on the frontline of a culture war between liberals and religious conservatives — an issue argued as bitterly as brexit is here. but as we now live in an era of globalisation of protest, is the us fight over abortion coming here? helen thomas has been looking at both sides of the debate. her report does cont

for the second time.( james ) ruby anderson had dementia... and she had been missing for ten days.and back in 2013... the body of 57-year-old woman was also found in a stairwell at the hospital. kron 4's lydia pantazes joins us live from san francisco. lydia.... ( lydia )the body was discoverd around 1 this afternoon in the stairway of a power plant building on the hospital campus.we now know that the victim was 76-year-old ruby lee anderson. she was a dementia patient here at the hosptial and she was reported missing from sf general mental health back on may 20th. the san francisco department of public health, the sheriff's department and the police department are all investigating this case. it's unclear how anderson was able to gain access to the power building, which is not normally a place patients go. this afternoon we were able to speak with anderson's daughter on the phone and she says the family is very upset.now, if this a;; sound familiar it's because back in october of 2013, the body of 57-year-old lynne spalding was also found in a stairwell here at sf general. she had

. >> we analyzed people who developed dementia and people who didn't. >> reporter: in the largest, mostled study, researchers at the university of east anglia in the united kingdom poured over 800,000 medical records with millions of prescriptions. the university gave us this interview. >> or studies -- our studies have indicated a strong connection between the risk of dementia and taking these medications. >> reporter: the drugs include antidepressants such as paxil and medications used for bipolar disorder including zyprexa. the research also found an associated risk with medications used for bladder conditions as well as >> it is important but it is not conclusive. >> reporter: dr. barbara sommer is an expert on anti--- and tickle a genic medication. >> you have to measure the risk and the benefit of any medication that you take. >> reporter: she recommends patients review all prescription drugs and over-the- counter medications. >> go over each medication one by one, asking about it. >> reporter: the new research found no risk with popular over- the-counter antihistamines and sleep