American neurologist Dr Richard Restak has advised all of us to become complete teetotallers from a specific age onwards.

American neurologist Dr Richard Restak has advised all of us to become complete teetotallers from a specific age onwards.

In the UK, people living with certain types of dementia, can be prescribed treatments to help manage their symptoms. These are known as symptomatic treatments. They include donepezil (part of a family ...

Hallucinations are a fairly common symptom in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Treatment options like medications or therapy can help reduce their frequency and effect. Alzheimer’s ...

Alzheimer’s disease may cause cognitive complications like severe memory loss, mental health complications like depression, and physical complications like reduced mobility. Alzheimer’s ...

The project estimates that at least 4.3 million people 55 or older who have cognitive impairment or dementia live alone in the United States. About half have trouble with daily activities such as ...

Getting injured after a fall may be an early warning sign of dementia in older adults. That’s according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open last month. "This study quantifies a ...

I’d put the keys in the wrong place, that kind of thing.” In 2021, at the age of 60, he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. It had been a struggle to get from a suspicion ...

A new study by researchers at Florida State University's Gut Biome Lab has revealed a potential link between an infection caused by gut bacteria and the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Validation therapy is an approach to communicating with someone who has dementia that focuses on empathy, listening, and trying to find the hidden need that’s influencing the person’s statement and ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - R. Scott Turner, Professor of Neurology and Director of the Memory Disorder Center at Georgetown ...