She believed that people with dementia were desperate to connect. By Daniel Bergner “Every cell remembers where it was touched by the mother,” Naomi Feil says in a clip from a 2007 documentary, viewed ...

According to a recently published study, more than 40% of adults over the age of 55 in the U.S. have a lifetime risk of developing dementia. New cases of dementia are also projected to nearly double ...

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New products are being developed in an attempt to reduce loneliness and bolster cognition. By Dana G. Smith When Frank Poulsen, 72, first started talking to the artificial intelligence companion Sunny ...