Poor dental health and gum disease may be linked to Alzheimer’s disease, a study suggests.

Drugs used to treat high blood pressure could slow the rate of cognitive decline in dementia patients, research suggests.

More than a third of patients had to wait more than six weeks to access memory tests after being referred by a GP

Society for Creative Anachronism knew him as Strongbow from the group's jousting team

Figure now 670,000 with credit given to better early life education and improved heart care - but rise in obesity could send figure up again

Pilot scheme in Scotland sees specially-trained pet partners helping care for the elderly

Love has been compared to many things but rarely, I suspect, to a catflap. More precisely, believes the author A L Kennedy, “a catdoor in your soul”: it allows your beloved pet to come in, but also allows it to go out again and abandon you – “and you get foxes and badgers and burglars …”.

Rachida Sobhi claims she did not reveal her criminal record due to amnesia

French study finds higher incidence in elderly people who have had operations

David Cameron plans to use Britain’s presidency of the G8 leading industrialised nations to spearhead a new international drive to boost dementia research.

The tracking device can be worn around patients’ necks, clipped to belts and attached to house keys and features a button which would allow its wearer to speak to a 24-hour call centre

With 65 per cent of us likely to know a sufferer, products are being devised to help patients

The routine screening of all elderly patients for dementia would be a “disaster” as the stigma and anxiety caused by being diagnosed before symptoms appear could greatly outweigh any benefits, an expert  has warned.

A poet is working with dementia patients to weave their words into poetry. Susanna Howard, sits with them, often in silence, jotting down whatever words they utter, and then uses only these utterances to put a poem together for her collections, Living Words.