Dementia

Clinicians should identify strategies to alleviate the social impacts of dementia diagnoses and encourage patients to mobilize informal support networks, researchers say.

Undocumented dementia in nursing home residents who are transferred to acute care is linked to adverse outcomes, a new study finds. The good news is that acute care clinicians may now be recognizing dementia...

The next hospital crisis may be dementia behavioral emergencies, psychiatrist says … Neurologists prescribing Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm talk about practices and payments … Patients with diabetes may...

Spending time on intellectually stimulating activities appears to activate a gene family known as MEF2, which controls a genetic program in the brain that promotes resistance to cognitive decline. That’s...

In randomized, double-blind trial, no difference seen in scores for agitated behaviors at 12 weeks with mirtazapine versus placebo

Not only did measures of mood, behaviors and cognition improve in attendees with dementia, but the robot pets provided participants with an alternative way to express themselves, researchers say.

The rate of schizophrenia diagnoses rose significantly for Black nursing home residents with dementia after the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care launched in 2012, a new analysis finds.

REGEN-COV antibody treatment cuts severe COVID risk at half dose, late-stage trial results show … Drug improves memory and function for those with dementia and ‘silent seizures’ … Depression relapse...

Drugmakers Eisai and Biogen are putting the Food and Drug Administration to the test with a request to approve a second Alzheimer’s drug that works like aducanumab (Aduhelm), the new, yet controversial,...

Physicians appear to place lower importance on factors that may lead to diagnosis of pulmonary embolism when evaluating patients with dementia who present with shortness of breath, investigators say.