Potent sedating medications are often used on agitated people with dementia in long-term care facilities despite federal efforts to discourage them. A clash over whether to drug a Michigan woman named Marjorie Tingley illuminates the wrenching decisions families and guardians face. David Tingley hide caption toggle caption David Tingley In December 2024, Marjorie Tingley’s adult
NEW YORK — The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is mentally competent to stand trial as he faces sex trafficking charges after being hospitalized for months for dementia and Alzheimer’s symptoms, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat Choudhury, in her Thursday decision, concluded that Michael Jeffries “clearly possesses a rational and
NEW YORK — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still has an Alzheimer’s disease program. Congress appropriated $41 million to it this year. There’s just no one staffing it. Then there’s the agency’s Office on Smoking and Health. Congress allocated $246 million for that. Its staffers were cut, too. Same for the epilepsy program.
Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. TOTOTO Avoiding air pollution from smokestacks and vehicle emissions is among a set of new dementia prevention recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO), which has not endorsed supplements or menopausal hormone therapy to reduce the
