The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranged from 8 years at age 65 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women, and from 5.7 to 2.2 years, respectively, in men, a meta-analysis reported.

Estimating Life Expectancy After a Dementia Diagnosis Learn how long men and women tend to live after a dementia diagnosis and why the time of nursing home admission is a crucial detail for ...

The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women and from 6.5 to just over 2 years, respectively, in men, finds a ...

A healthy lifestyle may allow older people to live longer, with women adding three years and men six to their life expectancy, suggests research published in the journal BMJ.

For participants who followed a healthy lifestyle, life expectancy at age 65 was 23.1 years for men and 24.2 for women.

The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women and from 6.5 to just over 2 years, respectively, in men, finds a ...

By 85, life expectancy following a dementia diagnosis drops to a little over 2 years for men and under 5 years for women, results show.

Overall, dementia reduced life expectancy by about two years for people with a diagnosis at age 85, three to four years with a diagnosis at age 80, and up to 13 years with a diagnosis at age 65.

As people live longer, more and more individuals will reach the end of their lives with dementia and cognitive problems, British researchers say. In a 10-year study of 13,000 men and women 65 and ...

Increased participation by women in clinical trials has helped us understand why more women than men have dementia. Researchers believed dementia is primarily connected to longer life expectancy.