Michael West struggled to remember the five words the neurologist asked him to repeat. The 64-year-old Philadelphia ...

Comfort includes both physical and psychological comfort, ensuring that the person with dementia feels safe and is as ...

Daily interactions with friends, even through something as simple as a text message, may reduce momentary loneliness for ...

Two Roswell boys are bringing their community together to help find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, and they're doing it ...

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

One of the most devastating moments for family members of a patient with Alzheimer’s is when their loved one forgets who they ...

Even brief, friendly interactions can lift the emotional weight of dementia caregiving, with new research showing that ...

Jason Aldean's song "Help You Remember" is all about dementia and the toll it takes on a family. Here's are the lyrics to ...

WHEN Brenda Miles, 98, was moved to new accommodation after spending her £240k life savings on care bills, she asked: “Where are all my friends?” The widow with dementia had lived in ...

Families often describe a sharp kind of heartbreak when a loved one with Alzheimer’s stops recognizing the people closest to ...

New research has found that the loss of social memory – recognizing friends and family – in Alzheimer's disease (AD) could ...