Older adults who have experienced a traumatic injury after a fall are 21 percent more likely to later receive a diagnosis of ...

The gait also has been described as magnetic. People with NPH also may have mild dementia and bladder and bowel incontinence. A 78-year-old man exhibited symptoms of NPH for at least 4 years ...

Gait difficulties due to decline in lower limb function is common in older people, and this is associated with increased risk of dementia and death. While factors contributing to gait difficulties ...

Dementia's most glaring sign may be memory loss, yet there are subtler symptoms to watch out for. Folks are being cautioned ...

They analysed participants with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and measured their cognition, sleep, depression, gait, ...

A person’s risk of developing dementia is the chance that they will get it at some point in their life. Everyone has a chance of developing dementia, but some people have a greater chance than others.

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 ...

Some evidence suggests melatonin may help improve sleep-wake cycles, sundowning symptoms, and cognitive performance in people with dementia, but more research is necessary. Melatonin is a hormone ...

Table 1 presents a summary of risk factors for falls identified from studies undertaken in people with cognitive impairment and dementia. In presenting this information, we have categorized risk ...

Share on Pinterest SGLT-2 inhibitors have been linked with a 35% lower dementia risk in a recent study. Image credit: Tanya Yatsenko/Stocksy. People who have type 2 diabetes are at an increased ...

I've got dementia - dementia hasn't got me Dementia is already the seventh leading cause of death worldwide and one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older people. But it is ...

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 ...