Dementia Care

A digital training program significantly improved the quality of life for people with dementia who lived in assisted living communities and nursing homes in the United Kingdom. As a result, there was a...

It often can be difficult to determine when a person with dementia may need to go to a nursing home or receive that level of care. A new study created models to help people determine when older adults...

What do meaningful activities, resident engagement and person-directed living have in common?  The answer is, of course, everything. Assuring the delivery of purposeful, meaningful and engaging activities...

Slashing blood pressure cuts dementia risk … Meet the device that can spot Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s biomarkers … Navigating the holidays with dementia … Dementia villages could liven up long-term...

Dementia can place a heavy physical toll on individuals with the disease (and their loved ones), but the financial burden can be intense as well. A new study shows the detrimental impact of the disease...

Some people in minority ethnic groups with modifiable risk factors for dementia have a higher chance of developing the disease compared to white people, a new study finds.

A new board game highlights the challenges that people face receiving dementia care and aims to get people talking about how to improve it.

Dementia is not a normal part of aging.  These eight words should help anchor and inspire the long-term care and senior living industry’s collective work to change, renew and elevate the ways...

A prognostic tool that estimates mortality risk may help clinicians to guide discussions about treatment decisions and advance care planning, investigators say.

Assisted living operators found serious challenges in implementing infection prevention and control practices for residents with dementia during the pandemic, according to a new study across seven states.