Dear Carol: I care for my mom in my home. She’s 85, has been living with Alzheimer’s for many years, and is now considered to be in the late stage of the disease. My concern is that she sleeps so much ...

Here's how to distinguish "sundowning"—agitation or confusion later in the day in dementia patients—from typical aging, from doctors who treat older adults.

Poor sleep is linked to dementia risk. Learn how optimizing your sleep habits and focusing on deep, restorative rest may help ...

Dementia is common, but there are things you can do to reduce your risk or slow the progression of the disease.

Dementia is a progressive loss of cognitive abilities, such as memory, that is significant enough to have an impact on a person’s daily activities. It can be caused by a number of different diseases, ...

Doctors are increasingly warning that what happens in the middle of the night can reveal far more than whether you are simply ...

The research found that women who showed increasing daytime sleepiness over five years had double the risk of getting dementia compared to women with stable sleep patterns. However, the study only ...

A new study, which explored the link between sleep and dementia risk, found that women over the age of 80 who had increasing sleepiness during the day showed a higher risk for dementia, according to ...

For women in their 80s, experiencing increasing sleepiness during the day over a five-year period is associated with double the risk of developing dementia during that time, according to a new study.

The second-most-common form of dementia is Lewy body dementia, said Dr. Jori Fleisher, an associate professor of neurological ...