More older parents are caring for an adult child with dementia while dealing with their own long-term care needs.

Jessica Hoff has been charged with criminal negligence in connection with her mother LaVonne Hoff's February death.

“Any physical exercise, whether weight training or aerobic activity, is known to increase levels of a chemical involved in brain cell growth. It can also mobilize anti-inflammatory T-cells. This is ...

Weight training may help protect the brains of older adults from dementia, including those already showing signs of mild ...

Older people are often stereotyped as technologically incompetent. This can be even worse for people with dementia. When ...

Research suggests that certain sexually transmitted infections can damage brain cells and trigger chronic inflammation, which may significantly increase the risk of developing dementia.

GPs can more accurately identify older people’s frailty and intervene earlier as a result of NIHR-funded research led by the ...

A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk ...

A rare policy quirk in Wales offered scientists an accidental natural experiment—and what they found could reshape how we ...

The researchers say weight training can protect the brain against dementia on two fronts: by stimulating the production of ...

Seniors who received the vaccine for shingles had a 20% lower risk of dementia, say Stanford researchers who called the ...

A recent study found that people who received Zostavax, a older shingles vaccine, had a lower risk of developing dementia.