symptoms of dementia

Dementia deaths have more than doubled in the U.S. in less than two decades, a new government report shows. People are living longer, but doctors are also becoming more aware of the disease, which could explain the uptick. Doctors explain how dementia can cause life-threatening complications...

Donna Kaye Hill realized that her 80-year-old mother was faltering cognitively when her phone suddenly stopped working. When Ms. Hill called the phone company, “they told me she hadn’t paid her bill in three months.” Finding other alarming evidence of memory gaps, she took her mother, Katie, to...

As people get older, there’s a chance they’ll experience age-related forgetfulness, which can include misplacing things around the house, blanking on someone’s name, or using the wrong word. And these things can certainly seem like the early symptoms of dementia. But unless the person’s life...