When to Get Help Dementia can be difficult to spot because we often associate many of the early warning signs with normal age ...

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 some types of dementia, like frontotemporal, changes to behaviour such as a loss of empathy and sense of humour, or becoming angry, can be signs too. The NHS recommends keeping a diary of ...

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 ...

There is a relationship between a person having high cholesterol levels and going on to develop dementia. People with high cholesterol levels also often have other health conditions like high blood ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now, there’s a new type of prescription joining the conversation—and it may lower your chances of getting dementia. A recent study found that a class of medications called SGLT-2 inhibitors ...

The first signs of dementia can be easily missed. After all, changes can be subtle, says Julie Holder, a community hospitals ...

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 ...