A study looks at how long people live and how long before they enter a nursing home after a dementia diagnosis.

Dementia claims the lives of smarter people sooner, scientists have discovered. People who spend more years at school or in ...

At age 65, women lived an average of eight more years compared with 5.7 years among men, while at age 85, life expectancy was ...

How long one survives with dementia depends strongly on one’s age at diagnosis, ranging from about nine years at age 60 for ...

While education is known to bolster the brain’s resilience—referred to as "cognitive reserve"—it appears that individuals ...

Average life expectancy for patients with dementia ranges from 8.9 years after diagnosis at a mean age of 60 years for women to 2.2 years at a mean age of 85 years for men.

Aging is a social process as well as a biological one, and we have to figure out ways to cope with our greying and the greying of society and the speed of change.

A new study has revealed that Americans aged 55 and older face a 42% lifetime risk of developing dementia, more than twice ...

Hollywood icon Bruce Willis was seen making a rare outing in California, amidst the destruction caused by Los Angeles' ...

(STAT) A meta-analysis showed that the average life expectancy of people with dementia at time of diagnosis ranged from 5.7 years at age 65 to 2.2 years at age 85 in men, and from 8 to 4.5 years ...

Dementia claims the lives of smarter people sooner, scientists have discovered. People who spend more years at school or in education are likely to deteriorate from the neurodegenerative disease ...