More than 11 million adults in the United States are caring for people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia ...

An author of the 1973 American Psychiatric Association standard says it was never meant to stop doctors from expressing their ...

A review of 21 long-term studies involving over six lakh participants worldwide has found that loneliness is a major risk ...

Politicians, like everyone else, age. Some will develop Alzheimer's disease or dementia. How worried should we be about ...

The project estimates that that at least 4.3 million people 55 or older who have cognitive impairment or dementia live alone ...

One Baltimore-area victim, an 83-year-old woman whom CNN described as wearing “pajamas with holes in them because she didn’t ...

Hundreds of elderly political donors, including those with dementia, have fallen victim to Republican and Democratic political campaigns and groups. A single donation sparks a flurry of text messages ...

A Springdale man and woman accused of taking advantage of an incompetent person have turned themselves into Tontitown police, ...

Alachua County works with the Alzheimer’s Association to provide de-escalation training to officers, prevent aggression ...

Yolanda Howell, missing from her Country Club Hills home since Oct. 8, was found dead in the Bartel Grassland preserve.

Older adults who receive a dementia diagnosis in a hospital or nursing home have significantly lower survival rates than those diagnosed in the community, a new study shows.

The university was recently awarded a grant for a first-of-its-kind study on how incarceration affects health, age-related ...