There are two kinds of risk factors for dementia: non-modifiable and modifiable. Non-modifiable risk factors are ones that cannot be changed or eliminated, like aging, family history and genetics.

Dementia Community Champions increase knowledge and understanding of dementia, brain health and dementia risk factors. They also emphasise the importance of taking part in research in their local ...

Dementia claims the lives of smarter people sooner, scientists have discovered. People who spend more years at school or in ...

Alzheimer’s disease is currently the third-leading cause of death among seniors in the U.S., following cardiovascular disease ...

Yet despite decades of research, no treatment has been created that arrests Alzheimer’s cognitive deterioration, let alone reverses it. That dismal lack of progress is partly because of the infinite ...

A study found people who took vitamin D supplements were less likely to develop dementia. But experts said other factors may ...

New guidelines will help doctors identify patients with a common memory-loss syndrome that is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease in older adults. The diagnostic criteria for limbic-predominant ...

A. There is definitely an association between hearing loss and dementia. People should be evaluated for hearing loss. And if ...

The players walked out to the Flower of Scotland tune and there was a chorus of applause as Sir Alex Ferguson laid a wreath on the half-way line. A poem was read out in his honour.

SIR Alex Ferguson visited Man United legend Denis Law up to three times a week at the nursing home where his dementia-hit ...

Denis Law, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2021, died aged 84. Law is the only Scottish player to claim the Ballon d'Or ...

Law won two league titles with United and was a member of their European Cup-winning side under Sir Matt Busby in 1968 ...