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 ...

Dementia presents a profound challenge, impacting millions globally by gradually eroding memory, cognitive functions and daily life. Detecting the signs of dementia in a loved one necessitates ...

An estimated 5.8 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, but the condition can be tricky to diagnose. Patients usually are put through a series of tests, and it can ...

Stina Saunders, PhD, Personalized Medicine Lead at Linus Health, will present new data exploring how culturally responsive, person-specific outcome measures can be scaled across international ...

Carole Rainey, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, started to notice something wasn’t quite right with her husband, Bill, when he began to ramble in a way that was unlike him. He had ...

Misplaced your keys again? Blanked on the name of your neighbor’s dog? Don’t panic: Occasional forgetfulness is a normal part of aging. But if you have a sneaking suspicion that your memory lapses ...

A recent study published in Nature Aging demonstrates that simple blood tests can accurately detect Alzheimer’s disease and ...

A five-minute cognitive assessment test and an electronic medical record (EMR) decision-making add-on system improved dementia diagnosis and care, according to a clinical trial. Researchers assessed ...

BUDAPEST — Analyzing temporal changes in people's speech could be a simple way of detecting mild cognitive impairment to see whether there is a risk of developing dementia in the future, suggests ...

This short article is offered as an overview of available conventional approaches used to evaluate the underlying causes of cognitive impairment in individuals complaining of mild memory loss, other ...

Donald Trump found himself at the center of another controversy after appearing to mischaracterize a routine cognitive screening as an advanced intelligence examination. The 79-year-old president made ...