A RAND Corporation study pinpointed several unexpected predictors at age 60 that will likely lead to dementia later on. Researcher Peter Hudomiet and expert Dr. Marcie Smith discuss the health ...

Dementia is a syndrome that involves severe loss of cognitive abilities as a result of disease or injury. Dementia caused by traumatic brain injury is often static, whereas dementia caused by ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, in which people become forgetful and confused, usually starting in older age. People with Alzheimer’s have a build-up of two kinds of ...

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Vascular dementia is the second most common cause of dementia in older people. Dementia is a group of conditions that affects brain functions such as thinking, memory, and reasoning. Vascular ...

This is the 50th instalment in a series on dementia, including the research ... And in doing less we become less able. The Oxford Dictionary defines frailty as a condition of being weak and ...

and co-authors in Alzheimer's & Dementia. They define Alzheimer's disease as a process detectable by abnormal biomarkers when patients do not have cognitive symptoms -- a point of contention among ...

While dementia would satisfy the requirement that the condition be “progressive”, the submission said that the legislation did not define “advanced”. Many people with advanced dementia ...

Wendy Williams is ‘permanently incapacitated,’ reportedly according to a recent court filing by her guardian. Here’s what ...

Elderly people who are excessively sleepy during the day or lack motivation to go about their daily activities may be more ...