Dancing is known to lift the spirit, and a new study shows that Alzheimer's disease patients respond to the rhythmic moves as ...

Women aged 80 and older who experience increased sleepiness are twice as likely to develop dementia as those with stable ...

My mother died of the stress of Alzheimer's caregiving. A decade into caring for my father — and hiding his diagnosis from their friends — she dropped dead of a stress-induced brain aneurysm. Her ...

A patient whose pain has receded but who remains uncomfortable may feel stuck: there’s no number on the zero-to-10 scale that can capture their physical experience. Increasingly, pain scientists ...

The most common scale has been around for 50 years. It asks people to rate their pain from zero (no pain) to ten (typically "the worst pain imaginable"). This focuses on just one aspect of pain - its ...

The emergency unfolded at 8:34 p.m. on Monday, March 3, when the Palmer Municipal Fire Department’s Drone Unit was deployed to track down the individual, missing for roughly two hours in dangerously ...

MINT Memory Clinic care: as described above, this care model provides team-based interprofessional collaborative dementia care, in a shared care approach with patients’ family physicians and with ...

In fact, the death rate for dementia patients within the first month of surgery was 13% compared to 6% in those without dementia. The rates were similar when researchers evaluated them four months ...

The growing interest in managing and recognizing pain in ... pain in patients with dermatologic, neurologic, and orthopedic disorders (129). As reported by Evangelista et al. (60), currently, the MGS, ...

The NHS provides an abundance of resources to assist individuals dealing with a dementia diagnosis - both the patient and their loved ones. More information can be found here. Symptoms of a stroke ...

A study led by Karolinska Institute suggests that antidepressants prescribed for depression in dementia patients might hasten cognitive decline and increase risk of fractures and death ...