While education is known to bolster the brain’s resilience – referred to as "cognitive reserve" – it appears that individuals ...

The neurodegenerative disease is the leading cause of death in the UK and is caused by certain proteins clumping together in ...

A Wigan-based dementia charity is calling on the government to improve the lives of 100,000 people with Lewy body dementia in ...

A new study found that people who consume more red meat, particularly processed red meat like bacon, sausage, and bologna, have a higher risk of cognitive decline and dementia. Replacing red meat ...

Ditching bacon and sausages at breakfast time could reduce your risk of developing dementia, a study suggests. Research involving more than 133,000 people in the US who were followed for 43 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet and Mayo Clinic has revealed important insights into brain degeneration in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB ... Longitudinal FDG-PET Metabolic Change Along the ...

The study published in the BMJ analysed 261 studies involving over 5.5 million people with dementia ... dementia or Lewy body dementia. “About one third of remaining life expectancy was lived ...