A Cleveland Clinic expert explains the signs that indicate a dementia patient is nearing the end of their life.
While education is known to bolster the brain’s resilience – referred to as "cognitive reserve" – it appears that individuals ...
The neurodegenerative disease is the leading cause of death in the UK and is caused by certain proteins clumping together in ...
Coresh said previous research underestimated dementia risk because of inadequate documentation in health records and on death certificates, minimal monitoring of early-stage dementia and ...
Studies have found evidence of a link between football and an increased risk of dementia (3.46 times more than the general public) and higher rates of death due to neurodegenerative diseases ...
His story is chronicled in Winter’s End: Dementia and Dying Well, a book by Lewis Cohen — psychiatrist and dementia researcher at Tufts University School of Medicine. Cohen explores Dan’s early ...
The number of people in the United States who develop dementia each year will double ... while others were identified through hospital records or death certificates or through telephone assessments.
Dementia cases in the U.S. are expected to double by 2060, reaching 1 million new cases per year, according to a study ...