There are no simple, quick tests you can do that will provide a dementia diagnosis Getting a dementia diagnosis is a long and complicated process, which can be a postcode lottery. In some cases where ...

Dementia is a condition that affects millions of people worldwide, significantly impacting their lives and the lives of their families. Understanding and addressing dementia early can make a ...

Carole Rainey, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, started to notice something wasn’t quite right with her husband, Bill, when he began to ramble in a way that was unlike him. He had ...

Despite a lot of advancements in our understanding of dementia over the past few decades, doctors still don’t have a reliable way to tell who will develop the devastating condition. There's been quite ...

Is it dementia? A popular neurologist uses five simple tests of cognitive function to help gauge the health of a patient's ...

A new bipartisan bill would end the coverage gap for dementia screening, allowing early diagnosis when treatments are most ...

A study of frozen blood samples has turned up a trove of proteins that may predict several forms of dementia more than 10 years before the disease is diagnosed, researchers from the U.K. and China ...

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment is a 30-point exam meant to screen for Alzheimer's and other cognitive impairments in older adults.

President Joe Biden was declared fit for duty by his physician after his annual physical on Feb. 28, the same month a special counsel report raised concerns about his memory. However, the 81-year-old ...

A psychologist is speaking out about what it means that the president keeps taking cognitive tests, explaining that Donald ...

Why a right-leaning news organization stopped looking for evidence of dementia in well-known politicians after they ...