1.7m 'will have dementia by 2051'
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More than 1.7 million in the UK will have dementia by 2051, costing billions of pounds each year, experts forecast.
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Duke University Medical Center researchers have found that two years after major non-cardiac surgery, 42 percent of elderly patients will have experienced a measurable cognitive decline.
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An herbal medicine used in Asia for 2,000 years can reduce the impact of dementia, a small study suggests.
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A prominent hospital in Melbourne, Australia, has told more than 1 000 former brain and spinal patients that they may be at slight risk of a rare, fatal brain disease, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.
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Walking may protect the elderly from developing dementia, research suggests.
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The elderly risk accidentally harming themselves by taking potentially lethal mixtures of medicines, an expert warns.
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A third of Hong Kong's dementia patients had gone missing at least once in the past, experts said on Thursday, warning that the disease will weigh heavy on aging societies.
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Alzheimer disease experts at Cardiff University lead a study involving the analysis of 14,000 DNA.
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Millions of people in Britain face an impoverished old age unless urgent steps are taken to cope with a reported Â£57bn gap in pension provision caused by longer lives, earlier retirement and inadequate saving, a government report will warn tomorrow.
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Leading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Older people who have lost their teeth are at more than three-fold greater risk of memory problems and dementia, UK researchers report.
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People with Parkinson&#39;s disease (news - web sites) and dementia experience a similar average annual decline in cognitive function as people with Alzheimer&#39;s disease (news
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GENEVA  - Keeping old people in good shape is one of the biggest challenges facing the health sector with the number of people aged 60 and above expected to top one billion by 2025, the World Health Organisation warned.
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People 60 and older who undergo elective surgery may be at higher risk of lasting memory problems, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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More than one billion people will be over 60 years old by 2025 and, as populations age, the burden of chronic diseases will increase.
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A new study shows that elderly men who walk less than a quarter-mile per day are almost twice as likely to develop dementia as those who walk 2 miles a day.
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The presence in middle age of risk factors for cardiovascular disease, like smoking or high cholesterol, is strongly tied to the development of dementia later in life, investigators in California report.