The government now considers dementia one of its most urgent policy challenges. The Health Ministry projects that ...

Taking care of middle-aged patients means we doctors occasionally encounter one who is in distress because a parent has been ...

“The biggest gift is just a simple text,” said Catherine Newman, who writes about caregiving in her novels “Sandwich” and ...

With nearly 30% of its people aged 65 or over, Japan saw more than 18,000 elderly individuals with dementia wander off in a single year, with tr ...

Japan has been undergoing a severe dementia crisis due to its rapidly aging population, and technology is playing a crucial ...

Last year, more than 18,000 older people living with dementia left their homes and wandered off in Japan. Almost 500 were ...

Patients showed greater physical mobility and an 82 per cent reduction in refusal of care, said the hospital. Read more at ...

Japan, a country with over one-third of its people aged above 65 years, is reeling under a severe dementia crisis.Dementia is ...

Overall, Contreras concluded that DM-BUP represents a promising advancement in Alzheimer care, offering a safer, effective, ...

Demand for home health care, including at-home hospice care, has skyrocketed since the onset of the COVID pandemic, as has ...

Japan is grappling with a fast-growing dementia crisis as thousands of older people wander from their homes each year. Police data shows that more than 18,000 dementia patients went missing in 2023, ...

As Japan continues to see a rise in dementia patients, the country is actively adopting advanced IT technologies to address ...