Researchers tracked more than 7,000 older adults in England and found that loneliness and depression increased years before ...

A blood test that detects early signs of Alzheimer's could be on the NHS in 5 years but with a lack of treatments, would you ...

Scientists from Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan, believe they may have found the cause of Long Covid and ...

A large-scale study has highlighted ways to protect your brain health, reducing the likelihood of suffering a stroke, dementia, depression.

Background Depression has been consistently linked to the onset of dementia, but the temporality and nature of this ...

This was one of the first large-scale, randomized, controlled effectiveness trials to demonstrate a “significant reduction in all-cause dementia associated with lowering blood pressure,” the ...

Though the jab can help reduce the risk of developing shingles and of experiencing long-term pain ... dementia. Last year, Oxford researchers reported an even stronger protective effect in people who ...

An expert has warned that potential symptoms of dementia could become apparent with the clocks changing this weekend. On March 30 the clocks will be put forward one hour, marking the start of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Abbey Pain Scale or Warden et al’s (2003) Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia scale help to identify the intensity and site of any pain, and therefore help guide management of the pain the person may ...

Subtraction techniques were used to eliminate the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal at baseline from the signal in the pain condition. This allowed the researchers to isolate the brain ...

We would advocate the retraction of ‘patient centred’ scales for cognitively-impaired ... We observed that not every patient had a pain score recorded on admission, even in the non-dementia cohort ...