An abbreviated version of the Brain Care Score predicts risk for dementia, stroke, and late-life depression based on lifestyle factors alone.

Older adults with dementia face increased functional decline and loss of independence after a traumatic injury, with older ...

The herpes zoster virus invades spinal nerves, hiding within them until the individual’s immunity weakens, at which point it emerges onto the skin, causing vesicular lesions and severe pain ...

Owners often report aimless pacing, barking at nothing, soiling in the house and anxiety for no apparent reason.

On its own, LATE dementia is less severe than Alzheimer’s, but in combination, it makes Alzheimer’s symptoms worse, scientists say. Doctors told Ray Hester he was in the beginning stages of ...

Introduction Pain is a prevalent symptom in people living with dementia. Evidence shows that pain frequently remains unrecognised and untreated in this vulnerable population, leading to avoidable ...

1 Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States 2 College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States Introduction: Chronic ...

A vaccine that prevents one of the most painful infections around could be good for your brain and heart, too. New research out this week shows the shingles vaccine is linked to a lower risk of ...

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort. For years at Orchard Care Homes, a 23‑facility dementia-care chain in northern England, Cheryl Baird ...

Monotonic increase in dementia risk with greater alcohol consumption seen in Mendelian randomization genetic analysis. HealthDay News — Alcohol use is associated with increased dementia risk, ...

Pain is hard to measure. One person’s “ouch” is another’s agony. Now, scientists say they’ve found a better way of assessing pain: putting a price on it. By translating pain into dollars, they’ve ...

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