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A Walk in Their Shoes was designed to help senior living staff — and later, family members and first responders — better ...

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Poor oral health may increase dementia risk through both biological and social pathways, as reported by researchers from ...

Stunned by the discovery that she had a new older “brother,” a woman in her 60s in Tokyo confronted her father about the ...

Research has found the shingles vaccine not only prevents the painful, blistering rash in older people, but also protects the ...

UVA Health’s director of hospital epidemiology points to research linking the shingles vaccine to a 20% drop in dementia risk ...

New cases of dementia are estimated to double by 2060, but the good news is that about 45 percent of those cases may be ...