Alzheimer’s disease and dementia can cause aggressive behavior, even in people who have never been violent in their lives. These aggressive dementia behaviors can be scary and difficult for caregivers ...

If you’ve spent any time with people who have moderate to severe dementia, you have likely observed surprising, challenging, and downright infuriating behaviors. Wandering, yelling, becoming combative ...

Hazardous drinking at baseline was associated with neglect and psychologically aggressive behaviors across 21 days. Daily diaries of drinking and mistreatment showed that instances of neglect and ...

Caring for older adults with dementia is stressful, especially when they become physically or verbally aggressive, wander away from home, develop paranoia or hallucinations, engage in inappropriate or ...

In the last post, we discussed how and why frustration, depression, anxiety, and not participating in activities are common in dementia. In this article we’ll tackle the thorny issues of apathy, ...

Daily and hazardous drinking among family caregivers of people with dementia was significantly and independently linked with increased odds of abusive and neglectful behaviors, a new study finds. The ...

Tallulah Willis visited “The Drew Barrymore Show” and shared why it felt important for her family to be open about the “aggressive” condition, frontotemporal dementia, her dad, Bruce Willis, has.

17 November 2020, Bavaria, Krailling: A resident of the old people's home Maria Eich plays the game "Memory" on a nursing ward and puts pairs of cards together. Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa (Photo by Sven ...

This article was originally published on KFF Health News. Caring for older adults with dementia is stressful, especially when they become physically or verbally aggressive, wander away from home, ...

Caring for older adults with dementia is stressful, especially when they become physically or verbally aggressive, wander away from home, develop paranoia or hallucinations, engage in inappropriate or ...