Scientists predict that access to education will reduce one’s risk of dementia, while other lifestyle factors, like smoking and diet, will contribute to the…
New research suggests that reducing harmful air pollutants can decrease dementia risk by up to 26 percent. Exposure to air pollution is widely known…
Caregiving costs can reach the price of tuition at a four-year university, and families are looking for ways around the debt. A new survey…
Growing evidence shows that hearing loss is the leading controllable risk factor in midlife for dementia. Danielle Powell, an audiologist and epidemiologist at Johns…
Image: Lynn Casteel Harper, by Travis Tanay Lynn Casteel Harper, author of On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear (Catapult, 2020) and minister of…
As the prevalence of Alzheimer’s grows, so does its impact on younger people. Raising awareness has proven difficult, but Hollywood award-winning movies have taken…
After an act of violence against a 73-year-old, 80-pound woman under the guise of law enforcement, Being Patient writer Phil Gutis and dementia care…