Music-based therapeutic interventions may improve depressive symptoms and overall behavioral problems in the short term for people with dementia.

Music therapy can help lift the spirits and ease depression in people with dementia, a new evidence review has found.F ...

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In an Oxnard conference Thursday, the physician who helps lead a care movement asked people not to define dementia as a ...

Music therapy is unlikely to significantly other dementia-related symptoms like agitation, aggression, emotional well-being or cognition, results show. However, when compared to other treatments ...

The Alzheimer's Association revised the diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer disease (AD) and ADRD for clinicians in primary and specialty care.

“Did the dementia cause it?” he said of the agitation, noting that caregivers and others often link all behavior to cognitive change. “No, the cold water caused it.” Power is a New York ...

New UK study reveals daily physical activity reduces brain disease risk from dementia to depression, anxiety, stroke and ...

Covered in fake fur, the cat purrs and meows when it sits in the residents’ laps, while the dogs bark, pant and wag their ...

Over 30 million Americans take antidepressants. Researchers found four specific types with ties to cognition loss later in ...

As many as half of nursing home residents are cognitively impaired and may be unable to communicate symptoms such as pain or anxiety to ...