Things you could have done instead of checking your phone. I thought I would accomplish a lot more today and also by the time ...

Dementia Friendly” stickers will be in the windows of the shops, restaurants, medical practices and other buildings of the ...

I was an attorney when I started having memory problems at age 65. I retired and subsequently learned that I had a ...

The shingles vaccine reduced dementia risk by 20 percent in a recent study. The vaccine’s protective effect against dementia was more pronounced in women. Shingles vaccination is recommended for ...

When Penny Ashford’s father was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease at age 62, she knew the devastating brain disorder might one day steal her memory. In her late 50s, her free ...

Not one but two new studies published today have linked GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic to a decreased risk of developing dementia. There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s, which affects an ...

These programs "have a meaningful impact on Americans everyday," the organization said in a statement, adding that the BOLD program, as well as other Alzheimer's programs, were just unanimously ...

However, nearly half of American adults have hypertension, which is one of the most common — and preventable — risk factors for developing dementia decades later, research shows. Hypertension ...

A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk of dementia, too. WASHINGTON — A vaccine to fight dementia?

Statins can reduce the risk of dementia among those who already have low cholesterol, a study has suggested. People taking the cholesterol-busting drugs were less likely to develop dementia ...

Not spending enough time in the two deep stages of sleep — slow-wave and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep — may hasten the deterioration of parts of the brain associated with Alzheimer’s ...