Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), in particular, may be at play, and identifying ways to slow down its progression can help. In ...

Rising diagnoses of young onset dementia highlight the need for early recognition and timely evaluation of a condition that disrupts patients’ careers, families, and financial stability.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dementia is often thought of as a distant possibility or something that only affects those in the last years of their life. But ...

All-cause mortality risk was over six times higher for people with young-onset dementia versus controls. Median survival was 8.7 years, but varied by clinical type. People with young-onset ...

Dementia is traditionally perceived as a condition that affects older adults. There is, however, growing awareness of forms of dementia that develop much earlier in life. This has implications for how ...

A psychiatrist has explained six personality changes which could potentially be signs of early onset dementia. The World Health Organisation suggests that there are 10 million new cases of dementia ...

SUMMERVILLE — George McDowell was trying to smile as he talked about caring for his wife, Karla, and her early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. But he started getting choked up and fell in silence. Sitting ...

Survival rates of people with young-onset dementia -- dementia diagnosed before age 65 -- varied considerably by clinical type, a population-based cohort study in Finland showed. The median survival ...

Frontotemporal dementia is a brain disease that affects the parts of your brain responsible for behavior, speech and memory. “Frontotemporal” stems from the names frontal and temporal lobes, which are ...