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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Less slow-wave sleep over time raised the risk of incident dementia, prospective data showed. Each percentage decrease in slow-wave sleep per year in people 60 and older was tied to a 27% increase in ...

Dementia is becoming much more prevalent. It’s thought there are more than 944,000 people in the UK who have it, and among the over-65s, one in 11 people are impacted. The figure is rising because ...

The downsides of oversitting are well known to scientists and most of the rest of us. In news that we shouldn't take sitting down, a study just published in JAMA finds that people who stay seated for ...

Dementia affects millions of people around the world. It causes problems with memory, thinking, and reasoning. While scientists have studied dementia for many years, they still don’t fully understand ...