People with dementia sometimes get agitated and frustrated. New services provide a sort of Netflix for dementia, with videos ...

(CNN) — More than 55 million people worldwide have dementia, a number expected to nearly triple by 2050. Deaths from strokes may double by the same year, and 10% to 20% of adults experience ...

Scientists may have produced the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine is linked to reduced dementia risk. Using the health records of more than 280,000 older adults in Wales ...

Determining the clinical stage of dementia can help ensure that the patient receives the most beneficial treatment, according to researchers. The new test could also help confirm whether Alzheimer ...

The pilot programme — involving 111 of the island’s 3,400 dementia patients — revealed that many were not getting formally diagnosed, and that a lack of funding was burdening support ...

A former constable who fatally Tasered a 95-year-old dementia sufferer in a nursing home will avoid jail after a judge ruled he had 'completely misunderstood' the situation. Kristian White ...

He asked us to send him a copy of the makeshift calendar I had produced and he said "leave it with me, I will see what I can do".' Keith and Val were thrilled when Helen O'Connor, Dementia Support ...

In the next in our series, GP and dementia lead Dr Peter Bagshaw considers how to handle this clinical conundrum in which a care home is demanding sedation for an elderly patient with dementia. While ...

We see more and more people with dementia on our wards – an estimated one in four of our patients have the condition. We’re passionate about giving them the best possible care. But to do ...

health care assistants and volunteers is so we can better understand what it’s like for dementia patients and those who care for them. We see more and more people with dementia on our wards – an ...