A slower walking pace could be a sign of cognitive decline or dementia, a new study suggests. Researchers and other experts ...

Of the 818,800 assisted living residents nationwide, 44% have a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias, ...

Nearly half of all dementia cases could be delayed or prevented altogether by addressing 14 possible risk factors, including vision loss and high cholesterol. That is the key finding of a new study ...

A study by researchers presents their low cost, scalable methodology for the early identification of individuals at risk of developing dementia. While the condition remains incurable, there are a ...

The project shared research findings of three of the 12 risk factors that the team will study. The first was a report that people currently smoking five cigarettes per day have a 16% higher dementia ...

If you have older family members looking to brush up on their social media skills, this could be more than a nice gesture. A ...

Today, AARP, the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative), and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington announced the Dementia Risk ...

Case in point: According to a recent study in Geroscience, eating nuts daily is associated with a lower risk of all-cause ...

Long-term use of cardiovascular drugs may reduce dementia risk in older adults by up to 25%, while antiplatelet drugs could ...

Having a higher level of cardiorespiratory fitness reduced the risk for cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s, even in people at ...

Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia, which gradually destroys memory, thinking skills and the ...

These risk factors include genetics ... "While not all factors are modifiable, research shows that up to 45% of dementia cases could be delayed or prevented by adopting healthy lifestyle factors ...