Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. There are over 6 million people living with dementia in the U.S.

When we think about dementia, we often think of a person experiencing memory loss and confusion. While it’s true that these ...

People with type 2 diabetes who achieve optimal heart health by following the American Heart Association's 'Life's Essential ...

The group poetry sessions at the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota tap into a reverence for elders and storytelling.

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. -- Side by side on a sofa inside the National Comedy Center, Gail and Mario Cirasunda chuckled at a clip from the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties" that was playing on a TV screen. The show's ...

Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure increase the ...

In "The Day After Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia" (MIT Press), photographer Joe Wallace has chronicled the ...

Timothy West, who died last year, opened up about living with beloved wife Prunella Scales' vascular dementia and the minute ...

Only 200,000, or 3%, are diagnosed with Alzheimer's before age 65. Such an early onset means the disease is more likely to ...

A woman with Parkinson's disease has played her clarinet while undergoing brain stimulation, enabling surgeons to see - and hear - immediate results. Denise Bacon, 65, from Crowborough in East Sussex, ...

When two of the most powerful people in the world enthusiastically discuss how science is on the verge of finding the secret ...

Scientists have determined that how the brain shape changes with age could indicate early signs of dementia. Experts are finding that the best way to understand how the brain ages is not by examining ...