Latest Dementia News

Up to 4 in 10 people could develop dementia after 55. What you can do to lower your risk

Jan. 13, 2025 16:47 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — About a million Americans a year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly double today’s toll, researchers reported Monday. That estimate is based on a new study that found a higher lifetime risk than previously thought: After age 55, people have up to...

Lawyers for ex-Abercrombie CEO say dementia may leave him incompetent to face sex charges

Dec. 24, 2024 12:50 PM EST

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Defense lawyers say the former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch may have dementia, and a competency hearing is necessary to determine if he can face sex charges. Lawyers for Michael Jeffries said in court papers unsealed Monday in federal court in...

Missing Wyoming man with dementia spotted by wife on Salt Lake City TV dies after return home

Dec. 09, 2024 14:18 PM EST

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A missing Wyoming man with dementia whose wife spotted him on the nightly TV news hundreds of miles away in Salt Lake City has died soon after returning home. Michael Black, 91, fell ill with influenza days after he returned with his wife, Avril Black, 77, to...

A missing Wyoming man with dementia is safe after being spotted on TV hundreds of miles away

Dec. 04, 2024 15:54 PM EST

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Wyoming man with dementia who wandered away from home and hitchhiked to Salt Lake City is safe after his wife spotted him in a TV news segment about helping those in need. Ninety-one-year-old Michael Black ended up at Rescue Mission of Salt Lake, over 200...

Ex-New Orleans priest pleads guilty to rape and kidnapping in sexual abuse case ahead of trial

Dec. 03, 2024 19:54 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A disgraced 93-year-old New Orleans priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving the sexual assault of a teenage boy in 1975. Lawrence Hecker, who left the ministry in 2002, had been scheduled to stand trial Tuesday. Hecker’s eyes were focused on the...

Could Texas do for Alzheimer’s research what it did for cancer?

Nov. 21, 2024 14:09 PM EST

Two decades ago, state Rep. Tom Craddick could ask a room of his West Texas constituents what illness they feared the most and the answer, unfailingly, was always cancer. A few weeks ago, about the time Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick contacted him about a new blockbuster medical research fund...

Ex-UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is hailed as a working-class hero after his death at 86

Nov. 21, 2024 12:31 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — British politician John Prescott, a pugnacious and personable former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, has died at age 86. Prescott’s family announced his death on Thursday. They said the politician, who...