As a volunteer raising awareness, you’ll help make sure the real needs and concerns of people with dementia and their carers are addressed. Dementia is Britain’s biggest killer. There are 850,000 ...

A project involving a group of people diagnosed with early onset dementia saw them explore their creative side to see how they might contribute to various design tasks. Part of the project ...

A walk to raise awareness for the 1,600 people living with dementia in Jersey is set to take place later. The Memory Walk, ...

with September 21 marked as a day to raise dementia awareness and support people affected by the condition. To mark the occasion, Ons Tuis care home dedicated its Kuieruur (visiting hour ...

DLB is caused by the buildup of a protein called alpha-synuclein, which forms deposits called Lewy bodies inside neurons. Over time, these deposits interfere with normal cellular functions, causing a ...

In the months after my partner, Alex, was diagnosed with dementia in 2019, more than one person advised me to “save” myself. What they meant was that I should move Alex into an assisted-living ...

Nearly half of all dementia cases could be delayed or prevented altogether by addressing 14 possible risk factors, including vision loss and high cholesterol. That is the key finding of a new ...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has said it estimates that about 267,700 people are living with dementia in the community, which represents almost 70 per cent of people with the ...

"When you mention anything about dementia, everyone is interested," he says wryly. "It's a thing that we are all engaged with, and it's a thing that scares a lot of people." But Kiernan believes ...

"Lewy Body Dementia Awareness Month is an important opportunity ... and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine to design the Phase 2 SHIMMER trial, which has enrolled 130 patients ...

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