People living with dementia should have more power and creative freedom in collaborative design projects, new research from Heriot-Watt University suggests. This includes using their own ideas and ...

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 ...

Jennifer Lyle is the chief executive officer of the Alzheimer Society of B.C. Prior to joining the Alzheimer Society of B.C., ...

It's not unusual for Dutch patients with dementia to request euthanasia, but in the later stages of the disease they may be incapable of reconfirming their consent - one doctor is currently facing ...

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 ...

Hong Kong student Ingrid Chan Wai-hin was inspired to enhance the quality of life of dementia patients when both her grandmothers were diagnosed with the condition several years ago. Her maternal ...

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 ...

It took 19 years for the symptoms to emerge. Tom Beyrer, who served for six months as a police officer at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, was 65 when his ...

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 ...