After Lewis Hornby’s grandmother was rushed to the hospital with dehydration, he invented something to help her stay healthy: Jelly Drops, colorful candies that…
Earlier this year, when the House of Memories mobile museum visited a Liverpool nursing home, an older woman with dementia who had become withdrawn…
Neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience experts Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian and Christelle Langley at University of Cambridge and Chun Shen and Jianfeng Feng at Fudan University…
When research dropped at this year’s AAIC about the relationship between junk food consumption and brain health, late-night show host Stephen Colbert had a…
Alzheimer’s advocate GeVonna Fassett spent more than a decade caring for her late mother. Today, her organization, Olivia’s Prayer, supports dementia caregivers and raises…
Author and doctor Julissa Cruz Gómez doesn’t think adults should underestimate kids. So to help young readers understand dementia, she brings them straight to…
University of Sydney research fellow Camilla Hoyos discusses new findings that indicate treatment of sleep apnea can improve memory in people with cognitive decline….
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for estrogen — the use of pills, topical gels, and other applications to supplement estrogen production — is used to treat…
Nicole Bell is an award-winning author of What Lurks in the Woods, a raw and gripping memoir about her family’s journey with Alzheimer’s and…
Deb Jobe refused to let an early diagnosis of posterior cortical atrophy keep her from living a fulfilling, joyous life. She shares her journey post-diagnosis…
Three professors of nutrition and food science at the University of Reading explain why you shouldn’t trust research which claims that a single foodstuff…
Better Alzheimer’s treatments are going to require better models of Alzheimer’s brains in the lab, researchers say. Psychology researcher Étienne Aumont at the University…
When younger people receive an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, it’s often met with confusion. Many people aren’t aware that this fatal, neurodegenerative form of dementia can…
Computer Science professor Dorothy Monekosso takes a look at the potential for truly ‘smart’ homes to help people with dementia live more independently. You might…
Researchers discusses the ways in which people’s quality of sleep may influence their daily symptoms of Alzheimer’s. We’ve probably all experienced how a poor…