A 67-year-old man who suffers from advanced stages of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease was brutally beaten and robbed in a Houston parking lot last week. On Dec. 23, Florentino Hurtado was waiting for his wife in their car while she ran into La Michoacana Meat Market in North Houston. After about a minute, Hurtado exited […]
The revelation that Die Hard star Bruce Willis is suffering from a rare form of dementia prompted a surge in web traffic as people researched the illness, the UK’s leading dementia charity has said. Alzheimer’s Society said information on frontotemporal dementia was viewed more than 126,000 times in 2023, a rise of nearly 63 per […]
Alzheimer’s disease is a leading cause of death in the U.S., and despite recent advances in treatment, there is no cure available for those diagnosed with a condition that is the most common cause of dementia. Estimated to affect close to 7 million Americans age 65 and older, Alzheimer’s was responsible for more than 119,000 […]
Two revolutionary new ways to ease the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have been discovered, research has found. Electrical stimulation of the brain and light therapy might provide relief from some of the characteristic symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease, according to new papers published in the journals General Psychiatry and PLoS ONE, respectively. These treatments […]