For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and ...

I want to help other families understand that hospice care doesn’t mean the end,” said Becky Martinez. When her father’s care provider first suggested the HopeWest hospice program, Martinez didn’t ...

Thomas says "half the time people don't know I've got anything wrong with me". He wants to raise awareness of the condition, which can come with a large variety of symptoms. Researchers at Newcastle ...

An estimated 10,000-12,000 people are living with Lewy body dementia in Ireland, but only a small number of sufferers get an accurate diagnosis ...

A new report from New Brunswick’s top doctor has found no evidence of a mysterious brain disease that has allegedly been ...

Increased rates of incident depression appear in some patients with Parkinson disease and Lewy body dementia, 7 to 8 years ...

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article erroneously cited Darla Joiner, a registered nurse at Mount Sinai Health System, as a union official. New York’s largest nurses’ union has denied that ...

Depression that appears later in life is often viewed as a response to declining health, but emerging evidence suggests it may sometimes signal deeper neurological changes.

Depression is a common comorbidity in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Lewy body dementia (LBD). However, studies examining the rate of incident depression in the period preceding and following the ...

A patient at Western State Hospital in Lakewood died after accessing a construction crane on the property and jumping or falling from it, KING 5 sources say. Mike Johnson gives update on Jan. 6 plaque ...

Early Monday morning, Jan. 5, a person found dead at a construction site at Western State Hospital was identified by the Department of Social and Health Services as a patient who had been reported ...