dementia

It’s well-known exercise plays a vital role in your physical health, and now studies propose staying fit in midlife may protect your brain as well, avoiding mental deterioration in later ...

The idea of prescribing social and artistic activity may seem new, but it is actually more than 10 ...

Picture two different families, each dealing with a diagnosis of dementia in one of its members. In one ...

It is well known that Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, involves the accumulation of sticky ...

People who gain positive beliefs about aging from the culture around them are less likely to develop dementia, ...

A new care facility is being planned in the Vancouver for seniors with dementia, following the "dementia village" ...

"My number two does not look like a number two. I don't know what to call it. Is ...

In November, six people with Alzheimer’s disease and related types of cognitive impairment stood before an audience of ...

Early on in my work with Alzheimer's patients, I had the privilege of playing piano music for dementia ...

Robin Williams's widow, Susan Schneider, recounted the final moments of her husband's life in an emotional essay for ...

At a recent conference in San Francisco, Stanford music researcher Eleanor Selfridge-Field presented an extraordinary case about a ...

Among other serious public health issues, the government of China is facing the challenge of having to care ...

Many elderly Americans are often faced with financial, legal, and medical challenges they are not prepared to handle.

Are you or is an older adult in your life suffering from misuse of drugs?

A robust body of research has found that intellectual stimulation could be a bulwark against the threat of ...

A panicked daughter called the Charles County Sheriff police on March 18 in desperate need to find her ...

OTTAWA—Two members of Parliament with dramatically different political affiliations have joined forces in an effort to establish a ...

What can you do when faced with a diagnosis of cognitive decline, dementia, or Alzheimer's disease?

Realize that every pill that you take can have side effects or long term consequences.

You go to the store to grab a few things, but once inside you can't remember what you ...

With advancements in neuroimaging techniques such as EEG and MEG in the last three decades, there’s been increasingly ...

We’re more likely to recall memories and information we’ve used frequently rather than those obtained at a particular ...

Meditation isn't just about being "zen" or something ideological. It has physical impacts on the brain, and great ...

Many doctors use a simple screening test to identify dementia, although it looks a bit more like art ...

The risk of developing dementia doubles every five years after age 65.

Doctors write millions of prescriptions a year for drugs to calm people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms ...

Benzodiazepine drugs to treat anxiety have been associated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease, and the higher the ...