New dementia patients can expect to live fewer than five years after diagnosis, major analysis finds
Dutch researchers found differences in life expectancy by gender, geographic region, and age at dementia diagnosis. View on ...
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Here's How Many Years You Can Expect to Live After Dementia Diagnosis
The average life expectancy figures from diagnosis varied from 2.2 years for men diagnosed in their mid-80s, to 8.9 years for ...
New dementia tool predicts when symptoms will start: ‘Would you want to know?’
Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia, which slowly erodes memory, thinking skills and the ability to ...
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Study sheds more light on life expectancy after a dementia diagnosis
The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women and from 6.5 to just over 2 years, respectively, in men, finds a systematic ...
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Dementia has early financial toll, but senior living providers can help prevent it
After learning that people with cognitive decline could lose half of their net worth in the eight years before a dementia ...
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Dementia, survival rates, and nursing home admissions
Predicting need for nursing home care remains complex For clinicians it is an important and demanding task to inform patients with dementia and their relatives about the prognosis. As with malignant ...
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Prevalence of Dementia Diagnoses Increased in Individuals With Autism Diagnosis
Individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis have an increased prevalence of identified dementia diagnoses.
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New Biomarker Links Brain Waste Clearance to Vascular Dementia
Summary: A new study has identified a biomarker, DTI-ALPS, which connects glymphatic system dysfunction to vascular dementia.