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 ...

The overall rate of emergency room visits for older adults with Alzheimer's disease was 36.1 visits per 1,000 adults in ...

Study compared baseline sleep data with MRI scans taken years later Having more 'poor sleep characteristics' linked to dementia development Daytime sleepiness, early morning wakeups are two ...

As we suspected: Advanced dementia is a terminal illness. To describe the clinical course of patients with advanced dementia, researchers conducted this prospective study of 323 patients (mean age ...

impacting around 75% of all dementia patients and primarily affecting those over the age of 65. The disease disrupts brain function by impairing neuron communication, leading to severe cognitive ...

There are four dementia-specific medications approved in Australia – donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine, and memantine. These available drugs offer symptomatic relief and are neither disease ...

But because the drugs work by degrading the plaque, under FDA rules they cannot be prescribed until the existence of the plaques has been confirmed. Understanding the cause of dementia is also ...

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 ...

Alzheimer's Society funds cutting-edge research into the cause, care, cure and prevention of dementia, thanks to our incredible supporters. Here are some important highlights of how donations to ...