The community is rallying to support an elderly woman with dementia who was arrested for domestic violence and is now sitting in the Santa Rosa County Jail. The Council on Aging of West Florida is ...

Burnt out staff working in a ward where elderly patients and workers are routinely subjected to horrific violence say they’ve ...

LOVELAND, Colo. -- Three more Colorado police officers have been placed on administrative leave in connection with the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia, according to the Loveland ...

Alzheimer’s advocacy is not just for the patient; caregivers need help, too. My sister, diagnosed in her late 40s with multiple forms of dementia, is dying a horribly slow death; she is as violent to ...

In a recent doctoral thesis from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), more than 500 caregivers describe the extent to which they have subjected elderly people with dementia ...

A new study reveals resident-on-resident attacks are not a problem unique to American nursing homes but more likely embedded in shared cultural expectations of institutional care and the stresses of ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Alzheimer’s disease robs patients of so much more than their health. It can rewire ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Outdated policies on antipsychotic medications have made it much harder to care for ...

Outdated policies on antipsychotic medications have made it much harder to care for these patients. Bigstock Alzheimer’s disease robs patients of so much more than their health. It can rewire their ...