Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 30m people worldwide, mostly the elderly. After the age of 65, the chance of developing ...

Charles Piller, author of the new book Doctored, says the scientific community needs “to take a good hard look in the mirror.

Dan Winter’s advocacy for ending his life is discussed by dementia researcher Lewis Cohen, hospice specialist Jeff Zesiger, ...

Yet despite decades of research, no treatment has been created that arrests Alzheimer’s cognitive deterioration, let alone reverses it. That dismal lack of progress is partly because of the infinite ...

Alzheimer’s disease is currently the third-leading cause of death among seniors in the U.S., following cardiovascular disease ...

The mum-of-two’s stepdad Grant Nagel has Alzheimer’s. The 77-year-old’s illness and Linzi’s daughters, Olivia and Cora who ...

Yet “environment is really important, and it can be enabling or disabling,” said Andrew Clark, co-editor of the book “Dementia and Place” and a professor at the University of Greenwich in ...

‘The book’s title refers to “the long, silent period of this disease before dementia develops, but it’s only silent because we are not listening properly.”’ SeaSwallow says, ‘As a child, the author ...

Pioneering musicians are trialling a radical approach that takes treatment beyond medicine – and could save the NHS millions ...

Most doctors agree that people with moderate to severe dementia should never get behind the wheel. But in the early stages of ...

Our grey matter has always been a mystery, even to neurologists, but Professor Masud Husain says life-changing advances may ...

For our magazine’s next book group, we invite you to read Ten Days, by Austin Duffy. Tell us what you think of this novel about a widowed man and his daughter connecting with his conservative Jewish ...