Vitamin D also helps clear beta amyloid, a protein that plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease, Merrill points out. This is “the ...

Dementia reduces life expectancy by about 2 years for those diagnosed at age 85, 3 to 4 years for those diagnosed at 80, and ...

The researchers discovered that people who took vitamin D had a 40 percent lower risk of developing dementia than those who didn’t take a supplement. They also had a 15 percent higher five-year ...

So up to 40 to 50% of the risk factors that lead to dementia, people can actually do something about them. Loneliness is actually one of those factors that it comes down to three major things ...

Dementia is a scary, but common disease that affects more than 944,000 people in the UK. However, the early signs of dementia are often mistaken for old age, a new study has found. Six in 10 ...

said the vast majority — between 60% and 70% — of the 30 to 40 calls the nonprofit received last year involved people with the disease. ExplorePilot program for Medicare dementia patients ...

None of the participants had dementia at the start of the study. The researchers broke the groups down into people who took a vitamin D supplement and those who didn’t during the study. The ...