Dementia, affecting millions worldwide, isn’t a single condition but rather an umbrella term encompassing various disorders that impair cognitive function, memory, and everyday capabilities. Each type ...

Vascular dementia is a decline in memory, thinking skills, and self-care that occurs due to strokes in the areas of the brain ...

Dear Carol: My mother is 96. She was quite sharp into her 90s, but since then, her condition has gradually deteriorated to where she lives contently in her own little world. My brother likes ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence tool that helps clinicians identify brain activity patterns linked to nine types of dementia, including ...

Early-onset dementia significantly shortens patients' survival, with frontotemporal dementia bearing the greatest burden.

All-cause mortality risk was over six times higher for people with young-onset dementia versus controls. Median survival was 8.7 years, but varied by clinical type. People with young-onset ...

To help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease, people should take a brisk walk each day, limit their TV time and do a crossword puzzle instead.

An estimated 6.7 million Americans over the age of 65 live with Alzheimer’s, so it's important to know the early signs of ...

‘Mixed dementia’ is a condition in which a person has more than one type of dementia. This affects at least 1 in 10 people who are diagnosed with dementia. A lot of people have more than one type of ...

A psychologist has explained precisely what 'mixed dementia' means in an effort to clarify a common misconception. Dr Kelynn Lee, CEO of the Dementia Care Hub, has dedicated her career to researching ...

A new study has revealed that the cells lining our brain’s blood vessels play a more significant role in dementia than ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that helps clinicians identify brain activity patterns linked to nine types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, ...