Technological advancements, from digitized public records to DNA testing sites to video archives, amount to a golden age for genealogy. And for no other demographic is family history research more ...

Dan Winter’s advocacy for ending his life is discussed by dementia researcher Lewis Cohen, hospice specialist Jeff Zesiger, ...

Dementia is a huge public health challenge, and the situation is expected to get even worse in the coming decades. New research predicts that by 2060, around a million US adults will develop ...

Here’s some really bad news to start your week — your odds of developing dementia are much higher than previously thought. Prior research suggested that up to 14% of men and 23% of women in ...

Aging is a natural part of life, and for many, that journey includes dementia. As cognitive abilities shift, what remains most valuable is the present ...

Pam Belluck reports on brain health and neuroscience. The number of people in the United States who develop dementia each year will double over the next 35 years to about one million annually by ...

The risk of developing dementia may be much higher than previously thought, a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine has found. Older studies estimated that about 14% of men and 23% ...

The dementia risk was greater for women and Black Americans, the study found. New cases of dementia in the United States are projected to double in the next three decades, a new study suggests.

New cases of dementia will double by 2060, when 1 million U.S. adults are projected to develop the memory-robbing condition each year, according to a sobering new study published Monday in the ...