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

Here's how to distinguish it from typical aging.

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 ...

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

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, ...

Whether you have any of the symptoms or not, there are things you can do to reduce your dementia risk.

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 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 ...