Alzheimer's disease

Medicare says it’s considering a cut in enrollee premiums, after officials stuck with an earlier decision to sharply limit coverage for a pricey new Alzheimer’s drug projected to drive up program costs

A new report from the Alzheimer’s Association shows that the number of people in Connecticut who are 65 years old and up with Alzheimer’s Disease will likely increase by nearly 13% in just the next three years and it comes amid a shortage in the dementia-care workforce and widespread confusion over how to tell the difference between cognitive issues and...

Hartford Police are looking for a 65-year-old woman with Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease who went missing Sunday afternoon. Officials said Minerva Vargas was reported missing at approximately 12 p.m. and a Silver Alert has been issued. She was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, white pants and one blue sneaker with white stripes, according to authorities. Vargas is 5-foot-4...

Medicare says it will limit coverage of a $28,000-a-year Alzheimer’s drug whose benefits have been widely questioned

U.S. health secretary Xavier Becerra is ordering Medicare to reassess a big premium increase facing millions of seniors this year

Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm was heralded as a historic triumph against the memory-robbing disease. Now, the company is trying to keep it afloat.

Waiting to talk to an aging parent about their financial future until they experience cognitive decline is a mistake, say financial advisors.

Billions of dollars are stolen from seniors each year. Financial fraud and exploitation is the most prevalent form of elder abuse.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital is launching the first human clinical trial for a nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease.

A Connecticut woman was arrested Wednesday, accused of stealing $600,000 from her husband by convincing him he had Alzheimer’s disease in order to hide it from him, police said.

Persistent concerns about the first new Alzheimer’s treatment in more than 20 years are curbing access more than four months after regulators approved it.

A daily diet of colorful fruits and vegetables can help make your brain strong, sharper and smarter, studies show. Here’s what a Harvard nutritional psychiatrist eats to strengthen her memory, focus and overall health.

The energy was high and Rentschler Field was filled with pride and purpose at the Greater Hartford Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Sunday.

A month after approving a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug, the FDA has signed off on new prescribing instructions to limit its use to only patients with early or mild cases of the disease. The acting head of the FDA, Dr. Janet Woodcock, also announced that she was ordering an investigation into whether the agency acted improperly in approving the...

The acting head of the Food and Drug Administration is calling for a government investigation into highly unusual contacts between her agency’s drug reviewers and the maker of a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug

Doctors are trying to figure out who should get a new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

Biogen Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm is the first new treatment for dementia approved by the FDA in decades, and it’s started a war over the brain drug pipeline.

Federal regulators have approved the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years, leaving patients waiting to see how insurers will handle the pricey new treatment

Kristen Cusato of CT Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association explains what is so groundbreaking about the drug and what it could mean for future treatment of the disease.

Government health officials have approved the first drug that they say may help slow Alzheimer’s disease