More family members and seniors are considering in-home care as a superior option to traditional nursing home facilities.

A new study finds that healthcare providers and family caregivers often disagree on how best to manage dementia behaviors during end-of-life care. The research, published in the Journal of the ...

Village Caregiving reports that frontotemporal dementia is a progressive brain disease affecting behavior, speech, and memory ...

Introducing life-like dolls into dementia care may offer more than comfort — it could help calm agitation and ease distress.

Alzheimer’s disease and dementia can cause aggressive behavior, even in people who have never been violent in their lives. These aggressive dementia behaviors can be scary and difficult for caregivers ...

A key warning sign of dementia may appear when someone is getting dressed. Experts have detailed some of the vital symptoms ...

If you’ve spent any time with people who have moderate to severe dementia, you have likely observed surprising, challenging, and downright infuriating behaviors. Wandering, yelling, becoming combative ...

Caregivers who respond to dementia patients with indifference or irritation can cause problem behavior to worsen, according to a recent study by a Dutch researcher. For the study, researcher Marjolein ...

In my last post, I examined what the ABC approach is and how to evaluate the antecedents and consequences that may be influencing or causing unwanted behaviors in dementia. In this post, I will review ...

FTD is the most common form of dementia in people younger than 60, affecting social behavior, language and communication ...

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