When words fade due to dementia, talking to the people you love becomes more difficult. Fortunately, support is available.

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. When Jason Karlawish started working with dementia patients in the late ’90s, there often wasn’t much he could offer them. “I gave them a diagnosis,” ...

According to the Alzheimer's Association, nearly 7 million Americans age 65 and older are already living with Alzheimer's and dementia. In this part of CBS News New York's Cost of Caregiving series, ...

Although older patients with dementia have similar rates of colonoscopy-related complications as patients without dementia, they have higher rates of other non-procedural complications, according to a ...

In the case of a hip fracture, operating on a patient with dementia can be a difficult decision to make. Indeed, surgery exposes patients with dementia to a higher mortality rate, more delirium and ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A new Medicare program is giving local dementia patients and their caregivers more affordable options for in-home support and respite care. The initiative, known as GUIDE, short ...