A study looks at how long people live and how long before they enter a nursing home after a dementia diagnosis.

How long one survives with dementia depends strongly on one’s age at diagnosis, ranging from about nine years at age 60 for ...

Aging is a social process as well as a biological one, and we have to figure out ways to cope with our greying and the ...

Chronic air pollution has been discovered to slash the average global life expectancy by 2.2 years ... s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It slowly destroys memory, thinking and ...

LATE is a prevalent condition in late life and can contribute to memory ... More than 25% of people over 80 have this form of dementia. “Despite the commonality of the condition, most clinicians ...

We contend that the most relevant and readily communicated risk estimate for stroke and dementia is lifetime ... Lifetime risk is not static over time. Temporal trends in these risks should be ...

Most cases of dementia aren’t related to genetics or inherited. The chance of getting dementia generally increases with age. The likelihood of being diagnosed with dementia is more than six times ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S.