Science’s success at staving off death from heart disease or cancer has made another diagnosis more likely: Dementia.

While lifesaving vaccines face a relentless onslaught from the Trump administration—with fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert ...

Dear Carol: My mother, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, repeats the same question multiple times an hour. I know that’s typical behavior with Alzheimer’s, but it’s driving me nuts. I start out ...

I received an offer to ask a few questions of dementia expert John DenBoer who is behind a Netflix documentary on dementia premiering Thursday (April 11) at a venue in Phoenix before starting on ...

“People with Alzheimer’s dementia tend to maintain their social graces until relatively late in the disease,” Duxbury said. “They can make small talk and be polite and sit next to someone and ...

A dementia diagnosis usually starts with a family member noticing that something isn’t quite right: a partner becoming forgetful, a normally placid parent losing their temper more often. From there, ...

Communication remains a challenge in the progression of dementia. Individuals with dementia-related disorders have difficulties using words and language as well as understanding and comprehending what ...