Alzheimer's Disease

Finding home care aides for New Yorkers living with dementia may only get more difficult in the years to come. New York has the largest home care aide shortage in the nation, while the number of New Yorkers living with dementia will increase 12% over the next three years.

With COVID-19 cases rising across the country, health officials are warning of a compounding flu season and urging Americans to get their flu vaccination.…

Every September, thousands of people march through downtown Buffalo wearing purple shirts to raise money for Alzheimer’s disease research and care. Like…

Most Americans are struggling to adapt to stay-at-home orders, business shutdowns and social distancing guidelines under COVID-19, but such radical…

Buffalo’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s returns this weekend, as thousands are expected to walk around the Outer Harbor in the name of fighting the cognitive…

A silver alert has been issued for a missing elderly man reported to be suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or a related cognitive…

New research finds that African-Americans who grow up in harsh environments and have many stressful experiences are much more likely to develop Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia.

Former first lady Nancy Reagan has died of congestive heart failure in her Los Angeles home on Sunday.Nancy Reagan is predeceased by her husband, former…

Buffalo police say a missing elderly woman with Alzheimer's has been located. Authorities say Barbara McCarthy, 74, was taken to a local hospital to be…

According to the Alzheimer's Association, more than five million Americans have Alzheimer's disease and that number is expected to keep growing as the…