Some people with dementia lose their sense of social norms. Surprising dementia symptoms can include shoplifting, breaking ...

Identifying dementia (changes in memory and thinking that interfere with daily life) as early as possible is important. It can help people find treatments to reduce their symptoms or slow the ...

Feeling a lack of purpose and personal growth in older ages may be a very early warning sign of ... 65 live with dementia, according to 2014 data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Each year in Japan thousands of elderly people with dementia ... door with flyers for a pop-up cafe. While posting the adverts they're also keeping an eye out for houses where there are telltale ...

It means a simple blood test could replace the expensive, time-consuming and invasive tests currently available to dementia patients — more than a third of whom are never diagnosed at all.

Signs of dementia that might be missed In some types of dementia, like frontotemporal, changes to behaviour such as a loss of empathy and sense of humour, or becoming angry, can be signs too.

According to the study, those living lower-risk lifestyles were shown to have less severe pathological signs of neurodegenerative disease overall ... Alzheimer's and dementia, and yet remain ...

You never know what will be waiting for you on the other side of the door. Every day ... To determine if someone has dementia or Alzheimer's disease, there are several signs and diagnostic methods ...

In the UK a staggering 850,000 people are grappling with dementia ... signs tend to surface in most cases. Early detection can be crucial, potentially decelerating the progression of the disease ...

Changes in the brain that lead to dementia can begin 20 years before any outward symptoms develop. This means there is an opportunity for the very earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease to be detected ...

Researchers at the University of Melbourne developed MATCH (Music Attuned Technology Care via eHealth), an app detecting early signs of agitation in patients with dementia, and responding with ...