November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, a time to spotlight the growing impact of the disease across the United States and ...

Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, affects over 7 million Americans aged 65 and older, with projections ...

Listening to music when you are over 70 years of age has been linked to a 39 per cent reduction in the risk of dementia, according to a Monash University-led study of over 10,800 older people. The ...

Newly prescribed benzodiazepines or antipsychotics were tied to higher mortality for dementia patients in hospice. The drugs were started a median of 3 days after hospice enrollment and the mean stay ...

Walking more is associated with reduced risk for dementia, diabetes, heart disease, and more—but a new study says you can get fewer than 10,000 steps a day and still see all those benefits. An ...

Even small amounts of alcohol consumption could put older adults at a higher risk of dementia. That’s according to a recent study led by the University of Oxford in the U.K. — in collaboration with ...

Even small amounts of alcohol consumption could put older adults at a higher risk of dementia. That’s according to a recent study led by the University of Oxford in the U.K. — in collaboration with ...

Investigators examined baseline data from the Alzheimer Biomarkers Consortium – Down Syndrome cohort including 389 adults. The analysis estimated the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its ...

Dreams are normal occurrences for everyone, and most people report having occasional nightmares. However, the frequency of your nightmares, and how old you are when you experience them, might reveal ...

Department of Gerontology, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China Introduction: Age-related elevation of gonadotropins may ...