Dementia is a huge public health challenge, and the situation is expected to get even worse in the coming decades. New research predicts that by 2060, around a million US adults will develop ...

Prior research suggested that up to 14% of men and 23% of women in the US would get dementia ... which gives dementia more time to develop, and black adults often have less access to education ...

As a result, years may pass before a formal diagnosis is made — and patients receive proper support and treatment. Studies suggest that 58 percent of adults in the US with probable dementia were ...

“However, only approximately 20% of US adults are meeting ... The novel diagnosis criteria aims to catch Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, in its earliest and most ...

Overall, more than 2 in 5 people over the age of 55 in the US – about 42% – will develop dementia ... adults with hearing loss are using a hearing aid.” And for the first time, new diagnosis ...