Dementia, a condition affecting approximately 55 million people globally, is often viewed as an unavoidable consequence of reaching advanced age. However, it's less commonly known that lifestyle ...

In colder homes, the body works harder to maintain warmth ... may help reduce the likelihood of developing dementia later in life. The US study, which tracked adults aged 65 and older for a ...

Life expectancy tended to be higher in Asian populations and for those with Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses compared with diagnoses of other types of dementia, including vascular dementia, ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made a major breakthrough in diagnosing Lewy body disease, a leading cause of dementia. Until now, the only way to confirm the disease was through a ...

(STAT) A meta-analysis showed that the average life expectancy of people with dementia at time of diagnosis ranged from 5.7 years at age 65 to 2.2 years at age 85 in men, and from 8 to 4.5 years ...

New cases of dementia ... life and ones ability to function independently. There are a number of diseases that are grouped under dementia including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Lewy ...

Average life expectancy for patients with dementia ranges from 8.9 years after diagnosis at a mean age of 60 years for women to 2.2 years at a mean age of 85 years for men. HealthDay News — Average ...

The review of 261 studies, published in The British Medical Journal, also found that dementia shortened life expectancy by about two years for people diagnosed at 85 years of age, by three to four ...

Coresh, for example, wears a helmet when biking because repeated or severe brain injuries from crashes or falls increase the risk of later-in-life dementia. Especially important: "What's good for ...

The dementia ... life and ones ability to function independently. There are a number of diseases that are grouped under dementia including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Lewy body ...

(Science Signaling) Brain hypometabolism began to evolve during the prodromal stage of dementia with Lewy bodies, with changes on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET paralleling progressive symptoms.

Pandemic wiped out over a year in life expectancy in Europe Ireland ranks seventh in the European table for life expectancy at birth. Photo: Stock image Life expectancy at birth in Ireland has ...