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For some reason, it seems like practitioners run away from diagnosing people with Alzheimer’s disease. I don’t understand that when, in fact, Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 75% to 80% of all dementias. ...

LTC residents with dementia greatly benefit from hospice, but that care must be tailored to avoid counterintuitively long stays and disenrollment, investigators say.

People with vascular conditions such as heart disease, diabetes or high blood pressure have an increased chance of getting dementia as they grow older, a new study has found.

Preventing and treating mental health disorders earlier in life might reduce or delay the risk of cognitive decline, according to a new study.

Dementia changes everything. This means that we need to change everything we do in order to keep everyone, residents and staff, safe and in a setting where they can shine.  This also means organizations...

Undocumented dementia in nursing home residents who are transferred to acute care is linked to adverse outcomes, a new study finds. The good news is that acute care clinicians may now be recognizing dementia...

Medicare’s dementia claim measures appear to have become more sensitive in recent years, agreeing more closely with hospital-based measures overall and for certain populations than in the past, investigators...

The odds of dementia in later life are greater the younger an adult is when diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, investigators say. But prediabetes and late-life diabetes diagnoses are not linked to subsequent...

For nearly a decade, my freelance writing career included plenty of articles about chronic wounds, payment reform and pretty much anything else skilled-nursing related. Surely, I thought, I’d mastered...

Properly addressing the distress that underlies dementia-related behaviors is key to improving quality of life and preventing rapid decline in these patients, according to new guidance from leading dementia...