Arizona is implementing its first-ever dementia care standards for assisted living. Provider groups are lamenting the lack of extra funding.

Diets higher in inflammatory foods were tied to an increased incidence of dementia in older adults, longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort showed. Over 13 years of ...

Dementia is a cognitive degenerative disease that is often not recognized as there aren’t many significant signs of it. Here ...

Despite the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes worldwide, and the fact that Alzheimer's disease is the most frequent cause of dementia, most of the published literature suggests that type 2 diabetes ...

Dementia research focuses on understanding how the condition works, why it develops, and how it might be treated. Importantly, there is also a focus on how we can improve the lives of people with ...

Objective Physical activity (PA) is associated with a decreased incidence of dementia, but much of the evidence comes from short follow-ups prone to reverse causation. This meta-analysis investigates ...

People with severe dementia need full-time care, and it is often their families who care for them. It is difficult to decide whether or not to tube-feed someone with dementia because the feeding tube ...

Difficult questions a person with dementia might ask and how to respond Asking for a partner, friend or relative who has died If they are asking for a partner, relative or friend who has died, telling ...

These tests can help sort out vascular dementia from other types of dementia and Alzheimer disease. Lumbar puncture (Spinal tap). This is done to analyze cerebrospinal fluid for inflammation, ...

Vermont house manager faces charges in the abuse of a dementia patient at long-term care facility and officials say he gripped patient’s neck, prosecutors said.

News Health NHS Dementia patients at greater risk of heatwave-related health risks, nurse warns Figures indicate that over 944,000 people in the UK have dementia, which is about one in every 11 ...

Dementia rates are higher in the Southeast and Northwest US regions compared to the Mid-Atlantic region, a new study shows.