The study, which analyzed data on 1.2 million people with dementia, found improvements in five out of eight global regions ...

CBS News New York takes a look at what's being done to help New Yorkers living with the disease, and those who are caring for ...

For patients with dementia, schedule routine follow-up visits at least every three to six months. Family members are likely to play an active role in maintaining pharmacotherapy and other treatment.

As a patient moves from mild to moderate dementia, ... There may be a need for around-the-clock care. At this stage, the patient may have difficulty recognizing family members and caregivers.

Some described the patients as “prisoners” inside their bodies. Helping a dementia patient in pain can be challenging for hospice care providers, too. Previous research, cited in the recent study, ...

Cite this: Caring for Patients With Dementia in the Acute Care Environment - Medscape - May 01, 2004. Abstract and Introduction; PLST Model; Conclusion; References; Tables. Table 1.

Critical components of the model include: 1) patient recruitment and a dementia registry; 2) 90-minute, in-person structured needs assessments of patients in the registry and their family ...

Some of these programs, known as “comprehensive dementia care,” also employ coaches or navigators who help assess patients’ and caregivers’ needs, develop individualized care plans ...

In comparing the proxy ratings of hospice for patients with dementia to patients with other conditions, the researchers unexpectedly found the impact on quality of care to be about the same. Future ...

Your elderly mother forgets that you are stopping by to take her to the store. Your husband blanks out on some important information when he’s on the phone with the doctor. Your sister forget… ...

She believed that people with dementia were desperate to connect. By Daniel Bergner “Every cell remembers where it was touched by the mother,” Naomi Feil says in a clip from a 2007 documentary ...