Medicare Part B covers most dementia testing, including wellness visits, depression screenings, and brain scans. Additional coverage may help pay for treatments, medications, and additional costs ...

Some researchers seek to establish a single abnormal result on a set of biomarker-based tests as sufficient to diagnose the ...

“The current gold standard test, the Mini-Mental State Examination ... attending a memory clinic who had been diagnosed with dementia or mild memory impairment. Controls attained an average ...

Can dementia lead to death? Yes, though not directly fatal, dementia severely impacts the body, leading to complications like ...

A nonprofit assisting dementia patients and their families gave out free memory screenings in southeast Grand Rapids Thursday ...

LifeStream Services is now certified as a dementia screening location through the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.

Dementia causes a high burden of suffering to patients and their families. For the patients, it leads to increased dependency and complicates other co-morbid conditions. [5] For the families ...

These, he suggested, “would be better than screening blood tests for dementia, which clinical neurologists will very [likely] never adapt.” “The individuals noted in these tests should ...

New research from Auburn University shows a new drug might be a preventive for Alzheimer’s Disease. The study’s main ...

An experimental portable device might be able to detect lung cancer from a person's exhaled breath, researchers report.