Our easy-to-read patient fact sheet provides clinicians with information on the symptoms of delirium vs dementia and AD.
FORGETFULNESS and memory loss – both things that come to mind when we think of dementia. But did you know ... “For patients in more developed stages of the disease, a chaperone or family ...
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 ...
There were significant improvements in those with mild stage Alzheimer’s disease. Sundowning can be a symptom of dementia, in which people become more agitated and confused in the late afternoon ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fall has arrived, and that means open enrollment for Medicare starts Oct. 15. There are several changes for 2024 that you ...
Head of Clinical Services, Dementia Support Australia, & Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University A Korean study published recently suggests people with type 2 diabetes who are ...
Over-60s are 27 percent more likely to develop dementia if they lose just 1 percent of this deep sleep each year, a 2023 study found. Slow-wave sleep is the third stage of a human 90-minute sleep ...
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 ...
This is because, in the pre-dementia stages, patients' insight into their symptoms may already be weakened, making it harder to break through the denial that they might have the condition ...