In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is ...

My mother slipped into dementia in her early 90s. By then, I was a wife, mother and grandmother. I had an established career. I had, it seemed, mastered the roles that came with being an adult.

Center for the Arts exhibition “Portraits of Dementia,” runs from Jan. 31 through March 10. More than 50 million people are ...

A higher level of education was associated with only a slightly lower risk of dementia before death. According to these results, as the number of aged persons increases (with improved health care ...

Finally, scientists list Alzheimer's and overall dementia, which mostly affects ... remain viable for fifteen hours after ...

HACHINOHE, Aomori Prefecture—More than 200 death certificates were issued under the name of a doctor with dementia at a hospital here, where officials are believed to have attempted to conceal ...

THE CRIMINAL COMPLAIN The owner of a Santa Cruz County senior citizen center and an employee were arrested and charged with elder abuse, causing the death of an 88-year-old dementia patient ...

After watching his father struggle with Alzheimer's, Dan was diagnosed with early-onset dementia 10 years later ... and his unwavering decision to have full autonomy over his life and death.“Right ...