A slower walking pace could be a sign of cognitive decline or dementia, a new study suggests. Researchers assessed more than 16,800 healthy people over the age of 65 in the US and Australia during a ...

A slower walk as you age has always been a warning sign of increasing frailty that could lead to falls and other disabilities, experts say. Emerging research in small groups of elderly subjects has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to signs of dementia, becoming more forgetful is perhaps the one that most people are aware of. While it can ...

My husband was forty when we married. He wasn’t athletic and certainly not in as good of physical shape as I was, but not in ...

A recent study suggests that a decrease in walking speed during one's later years could be an early indicator of dementia.

The 5-Cog assessment tool helped improve dementia-related care in primary care patients. 5-Cog tripled the odds that a patient would receive a dementia-related intervention within 90 days. The quick ...

A brain specialist has disclosed that a straightforward exercise might reveal early indicators of a devastating condition. Dementia is defined by a gradual decline in cognitive function, primarily ...