One of the most common causes of death for people with dementia is pneumonia caused by an infection. A person in the later stages of dementia may have symptoms that suggest that they are close to ...

There is an increasing amount of research into the link between certain infections and dementia, including herpes, pneumonia, syphilis, Lyme disease and gum disease. Research shows that dementia is ...

Complications can include blood clots, sepsis and aspiration pneumonia. Dementia was listed as the underlying cause of death, initiating the series of events leading to the fatality, for more than ...

Dementia patients found to have increased risk of developing pneumonia READ MORE: Patients on NHS waiting lists should improve their own health Widely prescribed medications are putting dementia ...

A HKUMed study found that there is little difference in one-year survival probability among advanced dementia patients ... tube feeding have a lower pneumonia-free survival probability compared ...

pneumonia, and acute kidney injury. Using linked primary care, hospital, and mortality data in England, they identified 173,910 people (63% women) diagnosed with dementia at an average age of 82 ...

Around 7.4 per cent of Indians aged 60 and above are affected by dementia. This number is expected to rise from the current 8 ...