An innovative sensor that measures changes in the properties of light – and which is the size of a postage stamp – could help improve how Alzheimer’s disease is detected in the future.

In 2025, the number of women who died from dementia in England and Wales was the second highest ever recorded.

A good mealtime experience can have a positive impact on a person’s health and wellbeing. Food preparation and the person’s surroundings can be important. It’s important to remember that people with ...

What is Parkinson’s disease dementia? Parkinson’s disease is a brain disease that affects around 145,000 people in the UK. At first it mainly causes problems with movement. However, after a few years ...

Delusions (or strongly held false beliefs) are a common symptom for a person with dementia. They can take the form of paranoia, which makes the person feel threatened, even if there is no or little ...

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Cochrane reviews aim to analyse and draw conclusions about a particular health-related question. These reviews consider all the high-quality research on a topic and are often used by healthcare ...

Baristas can receive more training to make great coffee than care workers receive to provide dementia care – a new report exposes alarming gaps in dementia training. Huge injustices in dementia ...

Rhymes and engaging illustrations to help start conversations and relieve anxieties about someone close who may have dementia. Aimed at four- to 10-year-olds. My Grandma Has Dementia, by Alex ...

Amyloid is a protein that is found in our brains and bodies, but in Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid sticks together and forms different sized clumps that later become plaques in the brain. Amyloid is ...

Alzheimer’s Society is funding an exciting research project which aims to show that music can do more than comfort – it can help to stimulate the brains of people living with dementia. We’ve all ...

Older adults who regularly take part in word and number puzzles have sharper brains, according to the largest online study to date. The more regularly adults aged 50 and over played puzzles such as ...