According to a new study, smoking elevates the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. A study of more than 20,000 men and women found a 157% heightened risk of Alzheimer’s disease in people who had smoked more than two packs of cigarettes a day. For vascular dementia, these smokers had a 172% increased risk. “Dementia is a disease that crops up in late life, and that becomes... 

Determining early detection for people with dementia may help to reduce the healthcare costs associated with its diagnosis and case management. Leading healthcare professionals treating dementia, have indicated that early detection, leading to diagnosis and care management for newly diagnosed patients may be able to cut at a minimum 30% of costs in treatment.  That was the findings at the Alzheimer’s...