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Hospitals in England and Wales are failing to deliver adequate care to patients with dementia, a study said on Friday.

The National Audit of Dementia -- the first of its kind -- said dementia sufferers, who are mostly elderly, were dealt with "in a largely impersonal manner" and staff often fail to take simple steps that would lessen their distress.

Staff do ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new analysis of elderly dementia patients has found that by 2050, between three and seven million may be hospitalized each year, up from just over one million a few years ago.

That's worrisome both because the health care system is already strained, researchers say, and because the aggressive care given in hospitals might not ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Laughter may be good medicine for elderly dementia patients -- and best of all, it doesn't have side effects.

Australian humor therapist Jean-Paul Bell was originally a clown doctor working with sick children, but now he makes the elderly laugh through a programme called Play-Up.

Bell was also the key humor therapist in a Sydney-based study into ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - About 28 million of the nearly 36 million people living with Alzheimer's and other dementias have not been diagnosed, robbing them from the benefit of treatments and the chance to have a say in their future care, according to a report released Tuesday.

It found that many people are not diagnosed with dementia until the disease is ...

Scams aren't the only thing to watch for. Pleas for cash from legitimate organizations can be just as dangerous to your parents' bank account.

I wrote about managing your parents' money when they no ...

Up to half of worldwide cases of Alzheimer's disease could be due to modifiable lifestyle risk factors, according to a study released Tuesday based on a mathematical model.

The theoretical analysis suggests that seven known behaviour-related risk factors, taken together, account for 50 percent of the more than 35 million cases of dementia worldwide.

The findings "suggest that relatively ...

Brain injuries sustained on the battlefield and the gridiron of American football likely boost the risk of dementia later in life, according to two studies released Monday.

In a third study, also presented at an international Alzheimer's conference in Paris this week, researchers unveiled evidence that falling over in daily life may be an early warning sign of the ...

Ordinary painkillers such as paracetamol may work better than the risky antipyschotic drugs often prescribed to calm agitation in people with dementia, according to a study released Monday.

Patients with severe dementia showed significantly less agitation when taking ordinary pain medicines than a control group given standard treatment, showed the study, published online by the British Medical Journal.

Extreme aggression ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Alzheimer's experts urged U.S. lawmakers on Thursday to increase funding for research of the debilitating disease and to push international policymakers to pay more attention to its global impact.

They said the United States had fallen behind in efforts to meet the growing burden of Alzheimer's, and called on U.S. lawmakers to start pushing ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new way of testing for signs of Alzheimer's disease in spinal fluid may help more accurately identify which people with mild memory deficits will progress to full-blown dementia, researchers reported on Wednesday.

The findings, released in the journal Neurology, are part of a push to find new ways to diagnose Alzheimer's early, before the disease ...