OAKBROOK TERRACE, IL--(Marketwired - Nov 13, 2013) - The Joint Commission announced the release of a new Speak Up™ brochure, "What You Should Know about Memory Problems and Dementia," that ...

“Speak Up: What You Should Know About Memory Problems and Dementia” offers facts on memory loss and includes guidance for patients on when and how to seek help for the conditions.

A special brochure on dementia is being sent to ex-players and their families after the recent spate of footballers diagnosed with the condition. The charity Sporting Memories Foundation has ...

Feb. 15—Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia according to the OCCK in Salina, Kansas. Alzheimer's is diagnosed by ruling out other possibilities. The symptoms could be caused ...

This could be a hard pill to swallow. Now, a board-certified anesthesiologist in Los Angeles is revealing five daily medications that may also increase your likelihood of developing dementia, a ...

Taking any kind of opioid to reduce pain raised the risk of death 11-fold during the first two weeks for people over 65 diagnosed with dementia, a new study found. CNN values your feedback 1.

Known as young-onset dementia, the condition has risen by a shocking 69 per cent in the last decade-with more than 70,000 people affected. advertisement. Daily Mail.

Dementia — the progressive erosion of memory, concentration and judgment — affects more than 6 million Americans and accounts for more than 100,000 deaths each year. David Pereiras – stock ...

Joan Presky worries about dementia. Her mother lived with Alzheimer’s disease for 14 years, the last seven in a memory-care residence, and her maternal grandfather developed dementia, too.

A doctor points to PET scan results that are part of a study on Alzheimer's disease at a hospital in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP) Your chance of developing dementia at some point is uncomfortably ...

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