By 2030, the WHO estimates that there will be 82 million people with dementia, globally, and by 2050, that figure may reach 152 million. Currently, no treatment can cure dementia.

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that helps clinicians identify brain activity ...

New research links a common blood test used in diabetics to determining faster Alzheimer’s decline. Find out how the TyG index could help predict brain health.

Over 55 million people are impacted by dementia globally and it is estimated that 60% to 70% of these cases are Alzheimer's disease. Most current treatments for Alzheimer's do not slow or stop the ...

Over the course of 10 years, dementia robbed him of speech, medications sedated him, his muscles weakened and left him wheelchair-bound, then bedridden with bedsores and reliant on nasal tube feeding.

Over a hundred new drugs which could halt dementia are being developed at the “start of a journey to a cure”, scientists say. Experts have heralded the findings from a global review of drugs ...

Molly Jong-Fast on Mom Erica Jong, Dementia, Sobriety and Joe Biden The political commentator has a new memoir, “How to Lose Your Mother” Sharon Waxman June 3, 2025 @ 6:15 AM ...

Molly Jong-Fast’s unsparing account of her famous mother’s decline into dementia, and their life together, is just turning the tables. By Alexandra Alter Ever since she was a child, Molly Jong ...

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In a moving excerpt from ‘How to Lose Your Mother,’ Jong-Fast writes about being raised by larger-than-life feminist icon Erica Jong, and witnessing her heartbreaking decline.

But the condition will still have a huge impact on China in the meantime. “Dementia is one of the most expensive diseases in the world. It requires a lot of caregiving and treatment,” says Chen.