During National Family Caregivers and National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month in November, and all year round, the Alzheimer’s Association offers free resources to families caring for a loved one ...

Increased social engagement may delay dementia onset by up to five years, emphasizing the importance of social connections ...

Technology is available to assist with nearly every facet of modern life, including helping prevent people with dementia from ...

Technology is available to assist with nearly every facet of modern life, including helping to prevent people with dementia ...

There are two kinds of risk factors for dementia: non-modifiable and modifiable. Non-modifiable risk factors are ones that cannot be changed or eliminated, like aging, family history and genetics.

Besides common cognitive (thinking) signs, such as memory loss, judgment issues, and confusion, the potential physical signs of dementia include: taking longer to complete standard daily tasks ...

Doctors might not be sharing the diagnosis promptly, if at all TUESDAY, Jan. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Many elderly people and their caregivers don’t know a doctor has diagnosed them with dementia.

More than three-quarters of patients with dementia were not aware of their diagnosis, according to results recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. It’s not because the ...

Overall, the lifetime dementia risk after age 55 was 35% for men and 48% for women, the researchers concluded. Women generally live longer than men, a main reason for that difference, Coresh noted.

Amid the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, Bruce Willis was seen thanking first responders in what appears to be the actor’s first public sighting since revealing his diagnosis with aphasia in ...

The outing appeared to mark the retired actor's first public sighting since being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in February 2023. In an Instagram video posted by his wife Emma Heming ...

Teenagers should be considering their dementia risk, academics say, after a new study suggested having an unhealthy childhood could affect the brain in later life. A child’s body mass index (BMI ...