A simple test taken within a week of a stroke may help predict how well people will have recovered up to three years later, according to a study published in the October 17 2018 online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

GPs are being urged to 'prescribe movement' to patients with some of the most common conditions, including dementia. Read a comment from Alzheimer's Society.

The prison service and local authorities are failing to plan for a rise in elderly, ill and frail inmates, according to a new report from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Care Quality Commission.

Research from the University of Cambridge suggests our brain makes ‘spelling mistakes’ as it copies DNA and that this could potentially result in dementia.

Birds of a Feather star and Loose Women panelist Linda Robson admitted she 'did not know whether to laugh or cry' after taking part in the Alzheimer’s Society London Memory Walk.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its annual State of Care report, which found that the quality of health and social care in England has been largely maintained over the past year – but that people’s experience of care varies depending on where they live and how well different parts of local systems work together.