Here’s some really bad news to start your week — your odds of developing dementia are much higher than previously thought. Prior research suggested that up to 14% of men and 23% of women in ...

New cases of dementia will double by 2060, when 1 million U.S. adults are projected to develop the memory-robbing condition each year, according to a sobering new study published Monday in the ...

The dementia risk was greater for women and Black Americans, the study found. New cases of dementia in the United States are projected to double in the next three decades, a new study suggests.

Pam Belluck reports on brain health and neuroscience. The number of people in the United States who develop dementia each year will double over the next 35 years to about one million annually by ...

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

Up to 4 in 10 People Could Develop Dementia After 55. What You Can Do to Lower Your Risk WASHINGTON (AP) — About a million Americans a year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly ...