T he number of people living with Alzheimer's doubles every five years beyond age 65 and this number is expected to triple to ...

To deny this as self-indulgence is to misread not just the emotional landscape of dementia, but its existential core: the ...

Carey Mulligan tends to keep her private life just that, but she recently chose to open up about a topic close to her heart: her 91-year-old grandmother, Nan. The Oscar-nominated actress guest ...

Dementia doesn’t preclude any of the common sources of pain for the elderly, of course—cancer, surgeries, arthritis, osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, ulcers, injuries from falls, and on and on.

Ms. Casteel Harper, a Baptist minister and a chaplain, is the author of “On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear.” If you’ve heard about Molly Jong-Fast’s new ...