A healthy brain has wrinkles and neurons traveling together. In a brain affected by Alzheimer’s, the brain itself is smaller and the neuron structures have lost definition. The first areas of the ...

Dear Eric: This morning, while reading “Caught in the Middle” I raced to the computer to add to your advice about family members who want to come visit despite the letter writer’s spouse’s advancing ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Watching our loved ones age is never easy. Sometimes our loved ones age slowly - while others show us those signs of aging more frequently. And when we suspect a cognitive ...

“People with Alzheimer’s dementia tend to maintain their social graces until relatively late in the disease,” Duxbury said. “They can make small talk and be polite and sit next to someone and ...

My mother, who has severe dementia, has been living with us for the past several years. As her care needs have increased, my wife and I have made a decision to place her in memory care. She has never ...

For the first time, a United Nations declaration is pledging to address dementia. On Thursday, world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly in New York laid out a new plan for combating mental health ...

House Bill 2575 establishes the full-time position and adds the section to The Alzheimer’s Special Care Standards Act. “We will have a go to person and department to answer and address all ...