What Causes Dementia

Many health officials fail to cite dementia as a cause of death, a new study has found. Researchers examined the medical records and death certificates of 165 patients with advanced dementia who died while in a nursing home and found that just 16 percent of the death certificates listed dementia as the main cause of death. For patients with diagnosed Alzheimer's, one third did not mention the disease as a factor. Experts say this problem means that the deaths caused by Alzheimer's and dementia m... Read more »