The Latest Breaking News from Dementia

The medical profession has never before investigated the effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and genetic risk factors in a sizable cohort. Read on for details:

Forgetting names of relatives or putting the oven on for the Christmas turkey, as well as confusion in another environment could all be signs.

Forgetting a present, cooking the food in the wrong order or being disorientated in a seldom-visited house could all be signs someone should see their GP, according to an NHS chief

Inspirational Melissa Bremner, 27, has set herself a challenge to perform 12 Christmas concerts in wards and care home in Glasgow and the west to spread some festive cheer.

Samuel West candidly discussed his actor mother Prunella Scales' Alzheimer's battle and revealed the impact her diagnosis has had on his family, including his actor dad Timothy West

Jude Thorp, 59, who lives in Oxford, said she first started noticing changes in 2016, but she did not receive a formal diagnosis until 2021

One in four sufferers commonly go two years undiagnosed, one study claims

Early intervention could reduce your risk of developing dementia-related disease

Returning to Dublin after his mother is diagnosed with dementia, the Irish novelist faces the family he’d left behind

On Nov. 30, Eisai and Biogen announced the results of their latest phase 3 clinical trial in Alzheimer’s disease. The verdict: an 18-month treatment with lecanemab slows functional and cognitive loss by 27 per cent in people with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease. The study…

Sharon Calderwood contacted the Lennox after being appalled to find her beloved mum, Agnes McKenzie Ross, who has advanced dementia, left wearing soiled clothes, in pain and with little support or stimulation.