Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep ...

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SuperAgers defy normal aging by keeping sharp memories and healthy brains well into their 80s. Northwestern scientists discovered that these individuals either resist the buildup of harmful brain ...

Benzodiazepines and antipsychotics given to hospice patients with dementia appear to increase their risk of earlier death, ...

Newly prescribed benzodiazepines or antipsychotics were tied to higher mortality for dementia patients in hospice. The drugs ...

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

Dayna Wade started Percy's Village to provide care for dementia and Alzheimer's patients and their caregiving families. Applications for the care home opens soon.

Medications commonly prescribed to ease dementia symptoms such as agitation, anxiety, and delirium — benzodiazepines and antipsychotics — may carry major unintended risks for people with dementia ...

Introduction: Metacognitive strategy training interventions, like Problem-Solving Training/Descubriendo Soluciones Juntos (PST/DSJ), have efficacy for improving caregiver burden and depressive ...

Neurons produced from frontotemporal dementia patients' skin biopsies using modern stem cell technology recapitulate the synaptic loss and dysfunction detected in the patients' brains, a new study ...

A promising new study at Banner Sun Health Research Institute is offering hope to people with Lewy body dementia, a condition affecting more than 1 million Americans. Banner specialists combine ...

A Bronx hospital patient was beaten to death by her roommate, who has a known history of violent behavior, her grief-stricken family says. Cynthia Vann, 55, was sleeping in her room at Lincoln ...