Here's how to distinguish "sundowning"—agitation or confusion later in the day in dementia patients—from typical aging, from ...

Dementia is a syndrome associated with an ongoing decline of brain functioning, and there are many different types. But a ...

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Wendy Williams’s legal guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, shared a bleak update on the former presenter’s dementia battle in a recent court filing. Morrissey, a lawyer, said the 60-year-old writer ...

Find out why a person may hide, hoard or lose things, as well as how you can help. A person with dementia may hide things, store them for a long time, or lose them. This can be distressing for the ...

A QUICK drawing test could predict whether you're at risk of developing dementia. It's normal to become forgetful as you get older, but the 30-second at home test could reveal if you need to be ...

According to Dr Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez, a Mexican neurologist who researches cognitive decline, the clock-drawing test is an effective method of identifying dementia. Sharing an image of the ...

Losing your sense of smell is nothing to sneeze at — it could be an early sign of dementia. “Odor identification has been identified as a useful screening tool that predicts conversion from ...

A novel, quick, and low-cost dementia screening test could significantly improve early detection of Alzheimer's disease in primary care settings, according to research presented at the ...

It reads: “Please be patient with me. I have dementia and may take longer to make a decision, need you to repeat yourself, have difficulty following instructions or forget what you told me.” ...

Every year there are more people in the UK being diagnosed with dementia, the broad term used to describe loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other cognitive-abilities, because people ...