Medical News Today looks at three key studies and their key findings that highlight and further confirm the connection ...

Higher physical activity in midlife was associated with a 40% lower dementia risk over 26 years. Late-life physical activity also was linked with less dementia risk. Exercise and activity can increase ...

We’ve long known of the link between depression and dementia. Now, a new study pinpoints six depressive symptoms in middle age that can predict dementia more than two decades later. Dementia diagnoses ...

FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Average life expectancy for patients with dementia ranges from 8.9 years after diagnosis at a mean age of 60 years for women to 2.2 years at a mean age of 85 ...

(NEXSTAR) – As Ben Franklin once famously said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Eventually, we all die, but that may appear sooner than others for a variety ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Two years ago, the Adams administration launched its plan called, the "Healthy NYC Plan," with its goal of making healthy changes so life expectancy could rise to 83 years old ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — November is designated as Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month. It’s a time to take a look at what can be done to help loved ones and yourself in the fight against one of mankind’s ...

Joyce Siette receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Yet despite decades of research, major questions have remained unresolved. Does exercising at any age help reduce ...

Tammy McDaid is raising money to get her son treatment to slow the progression of his rare genetic disorder, Sanfilippo Syndrome GoFundMe Tammy McDaid is raising money to secure experimental treatment ...

Comprehensive dementia care programs improved caregiver satisfaction but not clinical outcomes. Neither health system nor community-based interventions showed benefits for patient cognition, function, ...

As my 55-year-old husband lay dying from young-onset dementia in Hospice House, moments of our life together started rapidly running through my mind like a beautiful silent film that seemed so vibrant ...

People with signs of damage to their heart during middle age are more likely to develop dementia in later life, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers. The study, ...