This was a cross sectional study of elderly patients attending two primary care clinic in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur from the period May till October 2010 selected by convenience sampling of consecutive ...

Many people only think of Alzheimer’s disease when they think about dementia. However, dementia is an umbrella term we use ...

Dementia more often affects older adults ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a milestone checklist and a tracking app to help you monitor your child’s development.

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 ...

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 ...

"When you mention anything about dementia, everyone is interested," he says wryly. "It's a thing that we are all engaged with, and it's a thing that scares a lot of people." But Kiernan believes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alzheimer’s Society CEO, Kate Lee, said: “What an achievement for our partnership with the FA! The power of the partnership ...

Some evidence suggests melatonin may help improve sleep-wake cycles, sundowning symptoms, and cognitive performance in people with dementia, but more research is necessary. Melatonin is a hormone ...

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 ...