Dementia causes a high burden of suffering to patients and their families. For the patients, it leads to increased dependency and complicates other co-morbid conditions. [5] For the families, caring ...

Jim Galvin and colleagues at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, have developed a simple tool to discern very early dementia in routine clinical settings. The field overwhelmingly agrees that ...

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers evaluated the performance of the electronic Clinical Dementia Rating (eCDR) against that of other clinically administered ...

The jury is out on the balance of benefit and harm from testing for dementia that results from an incurable disease Alzheimer's disease and its associated dementia can be a scary prospect for ...

Background Worldwide, the population is ageing, resulting in an associated increase in dementia prevalence. Forgetfulness in elderly people is often perceived as normal in some local cultures and thus ...