Village Caregiving reports that in-home care for seniors with dementia fosters independence, safety, and companionship, ...

Nonpharmacologic interventions should be tried before medication. Given the importance of long-term treatment and management of this population, primary-care clinicians are ideally suited to play a ...

Alzheimer’s disease puts a significant burden on not only the nearly seven million people who have been diagnosed with it, but also the caregivers supporting them. More than 11 million Americans ...

Medicare's regulations for enrolling in hospice exclude many dementia patients who need it the most. LPettet/E+ via Getty Images Jimmy Carter, who chose to forgo aggressive medical care for ...

Close to 7.5 million older adults in the U.S. live with Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia. And while most ...

Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a brain disease that’s often misunderstood. It’s actually the second most common type of ...

An Arkansan with Alzheimer's disease is more likely to be cared for by a family member or friend with their own chronic health problems than the resident of any other state except Pennsylvania, ...

Families have been urged to take extra care of relatives living with dementia during Bonfire Night celebrations. Nurses from ...

Carolina Caring launched a new Dementia Care Program on July 1 designed to provide expert support and services to patients with a dementia diagnosis. As part of this launch, Carolina Caring also ...

Aggression, agitation, and psychosis are common among patients with dementia. “When problematic behaviors arise, construct a differential diagnosis, as you would with any other problem in practice,” ...