Alzheimers disease

For children, excursions with grandmother are an adventure. As time passes, however, the ride into the golden years can get bumpy; if you're financially unprepared, it can take a dramatic turn for the worse, and even drive you and your family into bankruptcy. Here are some steps you can take to prevent that.

A consumer advocacy group and professor of geriatric medicine are urging the Food and Drug Administration to yank the strongest dosage of a popular Alzheimer's medication from the market, because they're concerned that it is dangerous and ineffective. Donepezil, which is marketed by Eisai and...

Medical imaging and diagnostics powerhouse GE Healthcare teams up with pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson to research methods of detecting Alzheimer's in patients -- even before they begin to exhibit symptoms of the devastating disease.

Alzheimer's is the scariest disease of them all. Slowly losing your sight or your hearing is bad, but relentlessly losing your mind is terrifying. It's also expensive. The cost of caring for people with dementia exceeds $725 billion annually, the combined 2009 revenues of Wal-Mart and Exxon Mobil,...

Despite earlier studies that hinted that Omega-3 supplements -- commonly sold as fish oil capsules -- might help slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows absolutely no benefit for most patients.

Its total worldwide costs for 2010 are estimated to be $604 billion, or around 1% of the world's GDP, according to World Alzheimer Report 2010 from Alzheimer's Disease International. By 2030, that burden could hit more than $1.1 trillion.

Eli Lilly has halted the development of an Alzheimer's treatment after studies showed the experimental drug not only failed to slow the disease's progression, it actually reduced patients' cognition.

Radical new thinking in the field of Alzheimer's study holds out the hope that literally millions of Baby Boomers could be diagnosed and possibly treated before the disease's devastation takes effect. While this is good news for middle-aged Americans, it's even better news for certain...

Former White House reporter Helen Thomas' rant against Israel was more than a "senior moment," but the forced retirement of the 89-year-old is a lesson in what the future of the American workforce could look like. Not that more elderly workers will be telling people where to live in a racist...

One of out every five citizens 65 or older -- more than 7.3 million Americans -- have been swindled, according to a survey released today by the Investor Protection Trust (IPT), a nonprofit organization dedicated to investor education. (See the top five scams targeting seniors.) To combat this...