Study compared baseline sleep data with MRI scans taken years later Having more 'poor sleep characteristics' linked to dementia development Daytime sleepiness, early morning wakeups are two ...

Communicating with someone who is living with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia can sometimes be a challenge. That's because one of the hallmark symptoms of dementia, along with memory loss, is ...

The project estimates that at least 4.3 million people 55 or older who have cognitive impairment or dementia live alone in the United States. About half have trouble with daily activities such as ...

Leno explained that following the gas fire, he was taken to the Grossman Burn Center - but went home that same night to be with his wife Mavis, who has been diagnosed with dementia. Earlier ...

Validation therapy is an approach to communicating with someone who has dementia that focuses on empathy, listening, and trying to find the hidden need that’s influencing the person’s statement and ...

Please check what your organisation's identity and brand compliance. Consider involving people with dementia in developing your documents. We identified these tips from desktop research, our survey of ...

Several strong visual clues can indicate that someone may have dementia such as Alzheimer's disease. For example, a person with dementia may have changes in the way they walk or move and/or their ...

In 1950, 28-year-old Mavis Gallant quit her newspaper job in Montreal and flew to Paris with $500 from the paper’s publisher and high hopes of becoming a full-time author. We apologize ...

It gets easier. It doesn’t get harder.” Leno and his wife Mavis have recently been navigating her advanced dementia diagnosis, which was revealed earlier this year. Leno was granted an estate ...

In turn, most of these infections associated with brain atrophy seem to be risk factors for dementia, according to the researchers’ analyses of the UK Biobank data of 495,896 subjects and a ...

It’s estimated that at least 4.3 million people 55 or older in the United States with cognitive impairment or dementia live alone. Denise Baker, a former CIA analyst who lives alone in Asheville ...