People diagnosed with dementia are living longer than before—thanks to advancements in the early identification of the condition and improvements in treatments and tailored care. This is the ...

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 ...

FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The clock is running for people who’ve been diagnosed with dementia, but the time they have left depends on their age. Average life expectancy for people with ...

She highlights some significant overlap with Alzheimer's disease, and she says her team's novel microscopy method sheds light on how microplastics that have seeped into the body could be triggering or ...

Vascular dementia - cognitive impairment caused by disease in the brain's small blood vessels - is a widespread problem, but it has not been as thoroughly studied as Alzheimer's disease, in which ...

Men can live as little as two years after a dementia diagnosis while women may survive up to nine, research suggests. Dementia is a memory and independence robbing disorder where the brain ...