Strength training, which means weight-bearing exercises that challenge your muscles, can contribute to dementia prevention, especially when combined with other types of exercise.

Combined pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions provide the greatest cognitive, behavioral, and functional benefits in adults with AD.

With more people aging and living longer, advocates say awareness and education are more important than ever to help prevent ...

The Sunshine Center, a memory care unit, was established within the Pleasant View facility to focus on the care of residents ...

First comes the yelling. Then come smiles and hugs. For 13 years, Morris Commesor has been a certified nursing assistant (CNA) at assisted-living facility the Glenn in Minnetonka, and the job can be ...

A nursing professor and an East Texas gym have come together to fight back against the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Rock Steady Boxing is a worldwide program that helps people combat the symptoms ...

Meet Steffani, supervised by Professor Rimona Weil at University College London. Steffani is one of our PhD students at the Alzheimer’s Society Doctoral Training Centre for Lewy Body Dementia, looking ...

Meet Amelia, supervised by Dr Daniel Erskine at Newcastle University. As a PhD student at our Doctoral Training Centre for Lewy body dementia, Amelia is looking at biological markers that could help ...

Scientists are reporting the first compelling evidence in people that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines with age. A 10-week study of people 65 or older ...

Few moments are more heartbreaking for families of Alzheimer's disease patients than when a loved one no longer recognizes ...

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive form of dementia impacting thousands of families across the Commonwealth. While it’s ...

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