Dementia and Alzheimer's are common conditions affecting over 6 million Americans of all ages. These brain diseases are degenerative and currently have no cure.

Signs of the disease can also ... find the keys by the back door. “That process of retrieving the information is just a bit slower in people as they age. “In dementia, someone may not be ...

Donald Trump's nephew Fred C. Trump III is opening up about his family's often-overlooked history of dementia — and how his ...

Dementia is ... morning among dementia patients, suggesting a potential link between morning irritability and the condition, Morning agitation could be one of the early signs that dementia is ...

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 ...

Recognizing the early signs of dementia ... forgetfulness is normal, dementia-related memory lapses are persistent and may involve close relationships. Patients may pause or seem uncertain when ...

A diagnosis of dementia generally occurs late in the disease progression. As I wrote recently, families can often see the signs in tasks that are cognitively demanding, especially in monitoring ...

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 ...

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.

Getting injured after a fall may be an early warning sign of dementia ... with dementia. Falls are the leading cause of injury for adults 65 years and older. Among the patients who experienced ...

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 ...