Advanced Dementia

A new board game highlights the challenges that people face receiving dementia care and aims to get people talking about how to improve it.

Expert advisors are set to determine whether Rexulti (brexpiprazole) is effective and safe for this new application, the FDA announced Monday.

The more a nursing home adheres to the newer concept of integrated best practices in these areas, the fewer hospital transfers in residents with advanced dementia, researchers say.

Stopping eating and drinking by advance directive is not identical to voluntary stoppage by the resident themselves, say the authors of a new paper.

Scientists have begun a search for the cause of a phenomena where people with late-stage Alzheimer’s disease are very lucid near the end of life.

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Nursing homes administer largely pointless and potentially harmful drugs to a majority of residents with advanced dementia, according to findings in Jama Internal Medicine.

Individuals with advanced dementia had better behavior after viewing a Japanese garden in a nursing home, researchers find.

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Long-term care operators might want to add show-tune sing-alongs to their dementia care plans, new research suggests.