Most cases of dementia are caused by a mixture of risk factors. A risk factor is something that affects our chances of developing a condition like dementia. For most of us our risk of dementia is made ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Confusion”, a painting in the Dementia Dreams exhibition. DEMENTIA Dreams is a solo art exhibition by Korora artist Stephanie Cunningham, who paints under the name of Jiaco. The exhibition on 1 – 2 ...

The hope is that earlier intervention could stave off dementia before it disrupts people’s lives. “It’s a really exciting development that we have blood tests for Alzheimer’s,” says ...

More than 11 million adults in the United States are caring for people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. In addition to memory loss, most people with dementia will ...

Up to 80% of people with Lewy body dementia experience visual hallucinations. These hallucinations are often recurrent and very detailed. Hallucinations of adults, children, or animals are common.

Please check what your organisation's identity and brand compliance. Consider involving people with dementia in developing your documents. We identified these tips from desktop research, our survey of ...

So what are they? So, number one, there is that he is clearly moving toward dementia…What are the symptoms? He can’t put sentences together. He loses track of what he’s saying. He ...

In turn, most of these infections associated with brain atrophy seem to be risk factors for dementia, according to the researchers’ analyses of the UK Biobank data of 495,896 subjects and a ...

It’s estimated that at least 4.3 million people 55 or older in the United States with cognitive impairment or dementia live alone. Denise Baker, a former CIA analyst who lives alone in Asheville ...