Lack of adequate blood flow to the brain due to clogging of cerebral arteries may play a pivotal role in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s dementia.

Neurodegenerative brain changes begin by middle age, underscoring the need for lifelong preventive brain maintenance.

Teepa Snow is a Dementia and Alzheimer’s care expert who trains and helps agencies, facilities, and families. She is an occupational therapist and advocate…

Delirium is defined as this acute, or like, sudden change in mental state. Which is different from dementia because remember that dementia usually is this, like, gradual change in the brain.

Scientists and physicians continue to learn more and more about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in general, but unfortunately, they still haven’t found a cure.

There isn’t one stand-alone test that will show whether someone has dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, since the typical symptoms like memory loss, confusion, and …

When something increases the chance that you’ll develop a certain disease we call it a risk factor, right? Because essentially it increases your risk or puts you at a higher risk for developing that disease.

Dementia is this general term we use when someone starts having trouble remembering, communicating, and understanding. And Alzheimer’s Disease is a specific type of dementia that accounts for …

If we take a look at the brain tissue that’s been affected by Alzheimer’s Disease under a microscope, there’s almost always two common factors that we’ll see, and these are called plaques and tangles. Let’s just look at these plaques for a minute.

So, Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and every other type of dementia causes damage to your brain cells, right, which, in turn, causes some difficulties with various things your brain controls…