Dementia is one of the biggest health challenges facing aging populations around the world. Millions of people develop memory loss and thinking problems as they grow older, and Alzheimer’s disease is ...

Dementia can be predicted in women up to 25 years before symptoms begin through a simple blood test, according to new research. A protein measured in blood samples is "strongly linked" to the future ...

Researchers found that higher blood levels of p-tau217 were strongly linked to future dementia in women over decades of follow-up. The biomarker could provide a less invasive way to detect risk ...

Dedicated memory tests on smartphones enable the detection of 'mild cognitive impairment', a condition that may indicate Alzheimer's disease, with high accuracy. Dedicated memory tests on smartphones ...

The 5-Cog assessment tool helped improve dementia-related care in primary care patients. 5-Cog tripled the odds that a patient would receive a dementia-related intervention within 90 days. The quick ...

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Women are twice as likely to be affected by dementia ...

As a primary care physician, I often have older patients come to me worried about dementia. They tell me they've been forgetting names or where they put their keys, and they're concerned that such ...

A brain specialist has disclosed that a straightforward exercise might reveal early indicators of a devastating condition. Dementia is defined by a gradual decline in cognitive function, primarily ...