To deny this as self-indulgence is to misread not just the emotional landscape of dementia, but its existential core: the ...

“They’re able to process that through poetry, and become the kind of caregiver that is needed,” Kakugawa said. Nearly 1.4 million unpaid caregivers in California are providing care for people with ...

Bill Gates says he is 'really excited' about the progress recently made in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease and related ...

South Carolina is creating a statewide network for researching and treating Alzheimer's disease even as advocates lobby for ...

An existing drug for HIV could double as a preventative therapy for Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers. NRTIs (nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors) are antivirals that are ...

Benny, 64, has early-onset Alzheimer's disease.Becky Luntsford, 63 is his wife, caretaker and cheerleader. But the thing he knows and remembers always is Becky, who he met in elementary school ...

Talk about a sore subject. New research suggests that a common viral infection lurking in as many as 8 out of 10 Americans could increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. But there’s a glimmer ...

I have a special interest in Alzheimer’s disease. For nearly 25 years, I practiced general neurology in Portland, Oregon, and some of my patients had dementia. In 2012, while doing a ...

The hope for early detection of Alzheimer's disease 05:17. This week, Sharyn Alfonsi and a 60 Minutes team met Dr. Ali Rezai, a pioneer in what could be a revolutionary new approach to treating ...

Scientists have long been racking their brains for ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia.. Turns out that the answer may lie within our own brains. Researchers from ...

A new survey from the Alzheimer's Association finds that people want to know if they are in the early stages of the disease, and are open to drug treatment.

Taking too long to enter the phase of sleep in which we dream may be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease.. This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers who studied the sleep ...