As our family members age, we worry. We worry about their physical health and potential cognitive declines. If you are ...

A new study from Columbia University shows that combining a brief smell test with a short memory exam can predict cognitive ...

A recent study from Columbia University has shown that a simple smell and memory test can predict the risk of Alzheimer’s ...

By the time a person develops obvious and severe signs of dementia—things like struggling with daily grooming tasks, ...

There are no simple, quick tests you can do that ... assessing elderly patients for the possibility of dementia. A Montreal cognitive assessment test (MOCA), which is for detecting cognitive ...

But what if healthcare providers could easily tell the difference between ordinary decline, and the warning signs of dementia ... most tests of its kind, the SAGE exam evaluates cognitive functioning.

In the United States, perhaps as many as one in ten have dementia, while another 22 percent suffer from mild cognitive impairment. Risk increases as you age. Among those over 90 years old, the rate is ...