A new study found that dementia cases in the United States are projected to double from more than 500,000 in 2020 to about 1 million by 2050.

Cases of dementia in the U.S. are expected to steadily rise in the coming years, hitting 1 million annual cases by 2060.

A new study shows that the risk of developing dementia anytime after age 55 among Americans is 42%, more than double the risk reported by older studies.

Average life expectancy for patients with dementia ranges from 8.9 years after diagnosis at a mean age of 60 years for women ...

Junk food, drug use and health policy decisions have affected U.S. life expectancy rates, and a new study projects that in 2050, West Virginia will rank last among the states. Photo by Spencer ...

She is passionate about empowering others to protect life's most important assets. Wh... Amy Danise is the managing editor for the insurance section at Forbes Advisor, which encompasses auto ...

Term life insurance is usually the simplest and cheapest policy you can buy. That's because it's only in force for a set period — generally between 10 and 30 years — and it doesn't have a cash ...

while women shorten their own life expectancy by 22 minutes. This means that someone smoking 20 cigarettes a day could be shortening their life by anywhere between 5 and 7 hours a day, reports The ...

U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggests there may be another — much smaller — improvement this year. Death rates fell last year for almost all leading causes ...

Those who surf the internet in middle age can cut their risk of dementia in later life by more than half, a study has shown. And the protective effect is more pronounced for those who use ...

NOVEL research proposes a shift from clinical to biological definitions for Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), suggesting the adoption of a neuronal α-synuclein (n-αsyn) ...

Researchers examining southern right whales found that the median life span for the species was 73.4 years, and that 10 percent of individuals survived past 131.8 years. The report has combined ...