dementia

“Ferris Bueller” star Edie McClurg, 77, suffers from dementia and now her legal team is fighting to get a man who has been living with her out of her home. 

A new study reveals two indigenous groups in the Bolivian Amazon have among the lowest rates of dementia in the world, according to an international team of researchers.

Dr. Uma Naidoo, a nutritional psychiatrist and Harvard Medical School professor, shares the health benefits of drinking coffee — and how to maximize its brain-boosting properties.

Waiting to talk to an aging parent about their financial future until they experience cognitive decline is a mistake, say financial advisors.

A new study published in PLOS Medicine journal shows that people who drank four to six cups of coffee or tea daily had a lower incidence of stroke and dementia. Multiple studies have also found an association between moderate consumption of coffee and better brain health.

The NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired NFL players have reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia testing in the $1 billion settlement of concussion claims

Tony Bennett has canceled his fall and winter 2021 tour dates

A month after approving a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug, the FDA has signed off on new prescribing instructions to limit its use to only patients with early or mild cases of the disease. The acting head of the FDA, Dr. Janet Woodcock, also announced that she was ordering an investigation into whether the agency acted improperly in approving the...

Biogen Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm is the first new treatment for dementia approved by the FDA in decades, and it’s started a war over the brain drug pipeline.

Prosecutors say a police officer who pushed a 73-year-old Colorado woman with dementia to the ground is facing criminal charges of using excessive force, while a second officer is accused of failing to stop or report his actions

A security camera captured police officers in Loveland, Colo., watching footage from the arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia, which ultimately resulted in them dislocating her shoulder and breaking her arm. While replaying the arrest on their phone, one officer asked, “Ready for the pop? Here comes the pop.”

A Colorado police officer accused of dislocating the shoulder of a 73-year-old woman with dementia while arresting her seemed to know he had injured her.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged so-called race-norming in dementia tests for retired NFL players

The study also suggests people with dementia are more likely to die from the disease.

A company has started selling the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease

New study results are boosting hopes that there soon may be a simple, reliable way to help family doctors diagnose the most common form of dementia

A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson’s patients did the same for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in a study that was stopped early because the benefit seemed clear.

Many older American adults may inaccurately estimate their chances for developing dementia and do useless things to prevent it, new research suggests. Almost half of adults surveyed believed they were likely to develop dementia. The results suggest many didn’t understand the connection between physical health and brain health and how racial differences can affect dementia risk. Substantial numbers of people...

Against a backdrop of disappointing Alzheimer’s disease clinical trial outcomes, two researchers are proposing a new approach for future study of the disease, according to a USC statement released Tuesday.

In the first large study to examine the diagnosis of dementia in older Americans over time, researchers, including from USC, found the vast majority never meet with a dementia specialist and are instead overwhelmingly diagnosed and cared for by non-specialists, according to a USC statement released Wednesday.