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HONOLULU (Reuters) - Identifying dementia early can cut the cost of care by nearly 30 percent, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, a finding that may reduce the heavy financial burden of the disease on the health care system. They said routine screening that identified patients with early signs of dementia helped cut average healthcare costs by nearly $2,000 per ...

Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London say a simple blood test could soon give Alzheimer's patients ten years advance warning that they will get the disease. The breakthrough came after researchers found high levels of a protein can be an early sign of the condition ...

Although there are the Betty Whites of the world – hosting Saturday Night Live at the age of 88 with her wit and split-second timing and even starring in a new sitcom – the harsh reality is that, after the age of 65, and most definitely after the age of 85, dementia becomes ...

Has this ever happened to you? You’re looking for something but suddenly you forget what you’re looking for. Or you put down your car keys, but you can’t remember where. Or how about this? You begin a conversation and halfway through you can’t remember ...

Police in Indiana say three people kept a 65-year-old woman with dementia locked in a tiny room for months while they lived off of her monthly checks. Police in the city of Anderson freed Anna Turner on Thursday from the 8-foot-by-6-foot utility room ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified changes in mouse brains that impair learning, and say the findings mean drugs being developed for some cancers may also help fight age-related diseases like dementia and Alzheimer's. German researchers studying mice at difference ages found that older mice had changes in proteins regulating the genes in their brains -- specifically in a process called ...

Older adults whose spouses have dementia are on average six times more likely to develop the condition than seniors whose partners are not afflicted, according to a study released Wednesday. The danger is several-fold higher for men than women, found the study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dementia is not a disease, but covers a group ...

Mild lapses in memory during middle age might - or might not - be a harmless "senior moment." The key is whether or not it gets worse. New research suggests memory and thinking skills may decline rapidly for people who have mild cognitive impairment, which is the stage before Alzheimer's disease when people have ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elderly adults with poor vision, particularly untreated vision problems, may have a higher risk of developing dementia than those with better vision, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among 625 older Americans with initially normal cognition, those who said they had poor vision even with corrective lenses were more likely to develop dementia over the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Whether or not a person with advanced dementia winds up with a feeding tube inserted down their throat may have more to do with economic concerns than his or her wishes, suggests a new study out in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). In fact, Dr. Joan M. Teno of Brown University in Providence, Rhode ...