How Does Diabetes Affect Dementia Progression Speed?
Diabetes accelerates dementia progression by roughly 50 to 80 percent compared to dementia patients without diabetes, depending on the type of dementia...
Dementia Life Expectancy in Nursing Homes vs Home Care
People diagnosed with dementia live a median of 4.8 years after diagnosis, but where they receive care meaningfully shapes how those years unfold.
MoCA Test Scores and Dementia Progression: A Complete Guide
A MoCA score between 26 and 30 is considered normal, while scores of 18 to 25 suggest mild cognitive impairment, scores of 10 to 17 indicate moderate...
MMSE Scores and Dementia Stages: What the Numbers Tell You
MMSE scores divide into four broad ranges that map to dementia stages: 25 to 30 indicates normal cognition, 19 to 23 suggests mild dementia, 10 to 18...
CDR Scale for Alzheimer’s: What Each Score Means
The CDR scale scores dementia severity on a five-point system: 0 means no impairment, 0.5 indicates very mild or questionable dementia, 1 represents mild...
GDS Scale Explained: Rating Dementia Severity Stage by Stage
The Global Deterioration Scale, or GDS, is a seven-stage clinical framework that maps the full arc of Alzheimer's disease, from perfectly normal cognition...
FAST Scale for Dementia: Understanding the 7-Stage Assessment
The FAST Scale, or Functional Assessment Staging Tool, is a 7-stage clinical instrument that tracks the progression of dementia by measuring a person's...
Can You Predict How Fast Dementia Will Progress?
No, you cannot predict with precision how fast dementia will progress in any single individual, but clinicians and researchers have identified a range of...
Dementia Mortality Rates by Country: A Global Comparison
Finland leads the world in dementia mortality at 54.65 deaths per 100,000 people, followed by England at 42.70 and Slovakia at 38.15.
The Most Common Cause of Death in Alzheimer’s Patients
Pneumonia — specifically aspiration pneumonia — is the most common cause of death in Alzheimer's patients. It is not memory loss itself that kills.