Diets higher in inflammatory foods were tied to an increased incidence of dementia in older adults, longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort showed. Over 13 years of ...

Improved recognition of dementia as a major non-communicable disease by multilateral organizations is crucial, to build awareness and increase funding to tackle this insidious illness.

Dementia research focuses on understanding how the condition works, why it develops, and how it might be treated. Importantly, there is also a focus on how we can improve the lives of people with ...

Dementia is not just an old age problem. It can affect younger people too. Young-onset dementia can occur before age 65. It is often misdiagnosed. Sym ...

Capgras Syndrome, a rare delusion often seen in dementia, causes individuals to believe loved ones have been replaced by imposters. This unsettling condition disrupts emotional recognition ...

Your chance of developing dementia at some point is uncomfortably high. Forty-two percent of Americans older than 55 will develop the condition during their lifetime, a recent Nature Medicine ...

News Health NHS Dementia patients at greater risk of heatwave-related health risks, nurse warns Figures indicate that over 944,000 people in the UK have dementia, which is about one in every 11 ...

More information: Cunpeng Hou et al, Active Travel Mode and Incident Dementia and Brain Structure, JAMA Network Open (2025). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.14316 ...

More information: Jason R. Smith et al, Contribution of Modifiable Midlife and Late-Life Vascular Risk Factors to Incident Dementia, JAMA Neurology (2025). DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.1495 ...

The nursing home runs a Virtual Dementia Tour. The simulation gives medical staff and family members a glimpse of what it can be like living with dementia. "I did want to kind of give you a heads up.

Spreadbury and Kipps (2019), in their qualitative review of the experience of having young-onset dementia(in which symptom onset is before the age of 65 years), found that people can experience a ...

While participants in the mixed-walking group had a lower risk of all-cause dementia compared with those in the inactive group (HR 0.94, 95% CI 0.89-0.98), other results for walking were mixed.