Agitation is the third most common neuropsychiatric symptom observed in patients with dementia, with 30% of patients ...

An intervention program developed and tested in part by researchers at Miami University’s Scripps Gerontology Center has improved the quality of life for nursing home residents living with dementia.

Science minister Sir Patrick Vallance said he was "super excited" by advancements in dementia diagnosis and treatment ...

In the United States, significant numbers of adults with dementia require long-term care services. For example, around 750,000 people who live in nursing homes have a diagnosis of dementia. However, ...

Hospice care aims to bring comfort, peace, and dignity to patients at the end of life. Yet for the growing number of ...

The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women and from 6.5 to just over 2 years, respectively, in men, finds a systematic ...

A new study led by Trinity College Dublin and the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) across five European countries is the largest randomised controlled trial to date evaluating the efficacy of a ...

In the case of a hip fracture, operating on a patient with dementia can be a difficult decision to make. Indeed, surgery exposes patients with dementia to a higher mortality rate, more delirium and ...

Emma Heming Willis revealed her husband, Bruce Willis, moved into a separate home away from their family amid his frontotemporal dementia battle — and experts are telling Us Weekly how relocation can ...

What is the Dementia Care Specialist Program in Louisiana? The Louisiana Legislature recently appropriated $824,000 targeted to fund the Dementia Care Specialist Program. The program establishes a ...