While each person is individual in their dementia experience, it’s common for someone approaching the end of their life to become increasingly frail over a period of several months. This can ...

Optimising medication to enhance comfort and quality of life for people with dementia nearing the end of their life. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with a self-assessment test NT ...

Women aged 80 and older who experience increased sleepiness are twice as likely to develop dementia as those with stable ...

A tool that was once used to examine the intensity and frequency of pain in dementia patients following their death has been revamped.

For women in their 80s, experiencing increasing sleepiness during the day over a five-year period is associated with double ...

The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from about two to nine years, finds a systematic review of the latest evidence published in The BMJ medical journal on Jan 8 ...

In the mild Alzheimer’s stage, a person is able to function independently but suffers from common difficulties. These include ...

“The severity of depression in dementia patients wasn’t fully accounted for, which has the potential to bias the results”, said Dr. Prasad Nishtala, a reader in the department of life ...

An estimated 80% of women have some type of menopause symptoms — and the more symptoms they experience, the greater the chances of developing dementia later in life. The findings were published ...

a dementia family caregiver road trips the U.S. to swap caregiver stories of love, humor, and devotion with other family caregivers who share this hilariously heartbreaking end-of-life journey.

Get local dementia statistics by exploring Integrated Care System ... Dying Well – the support provided towards the end of life. These key areas are reflected in the way the local data has been ...