Dementia risk factors are a mixed bag, with some being unavoidable, like age, while others can be managed through lifestyle modifications in our younger years. Regular exercise and a balanced diet are ...

Medically reviewed by Brigid Dwyer, MD Dementia includes conditions that cause memory loss, confusion, personality changes, ...

Some people develop multiple types of dementia; this is known as mixed dementia. It is also possible for a younger person to develop dementia. When a person develops dementia before the age of 65, ...

There is limited awareness among both the public and practitioners that the risk of developing vascular dementia or mixed dementia can be reduced, or the onset or progression delayed, through ...

Margaret, 63, says, 'Trevor has mixed dementia – Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia – but he had never gone missing before, so I was naïve enough to think he would be fine. 'I only went out for an hour ...

Dementia causes loss of thinking, remembering, and reasoning skills to the point where it interferes with day-to-day tasks. Some dementia patients become emotionally unstable, which could lead to ...

Marilyn Kimball Our family lost its matriarch, Marilyn E. Kimball, at age 88 from the complications of Mixed Dementia on ...

There may need to be different treatments targeting different proteins and confusingly some patients have "mixed dementia", with multiple diseases playing out at the same time. Why is there such a ...