A new study from Johns Hopkins found that one type of brain-training computer game may help reduce the risk of dementia by up to 25 percent. What’s more, that protective effect appeared to last for ...

Communication is not just words spoken by one and listening by another. Communication involves body language, voice inflection, visual ...

Now, newly released, longer-term information from the ACTIVE study shows that a triple-dose of progressively more difficult speed-of-processing game played for 60-75 minutes twice a week over five to ...

Adults age 65 and older who completed five to six weeks of cognitive speed training—in this case, speed of processing ...

A 20-year follow-up of older adults in the ACTIVE randomized trial linked to Medicare claims found that speed of processing cognitive training with booster sessions was associated with a significantly ...

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The International Caregivers Association is launching a training program to bring a new communication model for dementia care to professional long-term care caregivers. The training will provide the ...

After an early-career lesson, Teepa Snow built a national dementia care model focused on seeing the person, not the disease.

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. — Many of you know what it's like to take care of someone with dementia. Every year in the U.S., there are half a million new cases of dementia, and that number is expected to ...

Aides that provide medical care are required to have dementia training, but that requirement doesn’t apply to homemaker companion agency workers. Part of a state bill would change that.

Dementia Training Australia has received $22 million in Commonwealth funding to build a dementia-capable workforce while the Dementia Australia Research Foundation has received $4.5 million from ...

Loveland Fire and Rescue Authority staff members celebrated the completion of their Dementia Together training Friday. Over the past week, LFRA staff members participated in training led by the ...