Doctors and other health care providers use a comprehensive tool to assess the seven stages of dementia in the elderly called the Global Deterioration Scale. Also known as the GDS, this trusted method ...

Janet Drey knows how hard it is to predict the future, especially the future of someone who lives with dementia. In 2009, a neurologist diagnosed her mother, Jean Bishop, then age 79 of Iowa’s Marion ...

Can you explain the stages of dementia? Dementia is an umbrella term used to describe a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking, behavior and social abilities severely enough to affect activities ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDKY) — University of Kentucky researchers who are involved in a clinical trial on the use of medical cannabis for late-stage dementia patients say the results could be a game changer, ...

A clinical explainer outlines common end-of-life changes in advanced dementia and why recognizing them supports comfort-focused care. It reports how end-stage dementia often brings prolonged sleep, ...

I’ve served for almost two decades as a consultant psychiatrist and medical director of a geriatric psychiatric unit. Our niche has been one of the most difficult: patients with advanced dementia, ...

Pearl Henderson's family want change after the 98-year-old died following repeated falls from bed.