While the terms dementia and Alzheimer's disease often are used interchangeably, they have two different meanings regarding diagnoses. Full Story 

Cognitive decline—or cognitive impairment—is a reduction in the ability to remember, reason, learn, and pay attention. While some loss of these thinking skills is a normal part of aging, cognitive…

Before Wanda Smith learned the results of an autopsy following her mother’s death, she thought she knew what the summary would contain. Full Story 

As the car meandered through the dark, country lanes, I turned to Sarah to suggest she put on the full beams. We’d been to a village fair near my parents’…

A team of researchers based at the University of California, San Diego, who developed a wireless, handheld device to detect specific biomolecules, have now shown their device can detect molecules…

Due in part to an aging population and the ability to detect Alzheimer’s disease more accurately, more and more people are being diagnosed with this disease of dementia. Full Story 

While we credit baby boomers with the graying of America, the fact is more than 10,000 adults will turn 65 every day for the next 37 years, long after Dec.…

Nearly a quarter of U.S. adults are part of the “Sandwich Generation,” meaning they’re simultaneously raising children and supporting their aging parents – and most of them are exhausted, according…

Her children described her as a caring and loving woman who spoiled them. But when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at 59-years-old, they found themselves having to take on…

While there are many benefits that come with getting older, there are also challenges. I should know, having spent the past 20 years training and working in gerontology, or the…