Dementia

Prevention can significantly reduce the risk of developing dementia. Furthermore, early detection helps to delay symptoms and organize the right support. The two dementia experts Dr. Silva Silvaieh and Raphael Schönborn in an interview.

When her husband Bruce Willis is diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, Emma Heming Willis leaves the doctor's office not with a plan, but with emptiness. "The unexpected journey" is exactly the book she would have wished for at the time: Not...

Sophie Rosentreter's path to becoming a care and dementia expert was not straightforward: She was a model and MTV presenter, lived a life on stage, at high speed. And then there was her beloved grandmother, who suddenly started behaving strangely....

Dementia is more than just a diagnosis - it affects language, roles, spaces and attitudes. The PROMENZ initiative shows how self-help, respectful interaction and low-threshold services can break down barriers and enable participation.

Leqembi, a drug that inhibits the disease-causing mechanism of Alzheimer's, has now also been approved in the EU. We answer the most important questions about it.

Care will increasingly have to take place at home. Cuts in support for those affected and their family carers are out of place and will only generate short-term savings. The costs will merely be higher and simply shifted to other...

Cities face the major challenge of adapting to the needs of older people and people with dementia. With its "Dementievriendelijk Brugge" project, the city of Bruges (Belgium) shows what a liveable, integrative city can look like.