The Silver Alert issued this week for a missing 65-year-old dementia patient has been canceled. ...more

January 15, 2009

A 71-year-old man who spent his mother's Social Security money on himself and on female companions has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. ...more

January 14, 2009

Authorities have issued a Silver Alert for a 65-year-old dementia patient missing since this morning. ...more

January 14, 2009

A search is under way for a man who disappeared from his assisted living facility in North Tampa late Wednesday. ...more

January 8, 2009

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office has made arrests in two separate cases in which elderly men reportedly were defrauded by people who befriended them. ...more

December 25, 2008

Bill Brown had a story to tell. So did Fanni Green. Brown, 58, a radio engineer, recalled a time in Naples when he was hired to be a "prisoner" at the local jail. Green, 48, a theater professor at the University of South Florida, told of how her life has changed since her 78-year-old mother fell, injured her shoulder and was diagnosed with dementia. ...more

December 13, 2008

An employee of the Bons Secours Nursing Home was arrested this morning on charges he molested an 83-year-old female resident who is suffering from dementia, St. Petersburg police say. ...more

December 11, 2008

TAMPA -- Bill Brown had a story to tell. So did Fanni Green. Brown and Green today became the first two Tampa area residents to record 40-minute personal accounts for the StoryCorps project. This nonprofit effort to collect personal oral history has set up a mobile recording studio in Ybor City. ...more

December 11, 2008

Many of the thousands of troops who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of long-term health problems including depression and Alzheimer's-like symptoms, but it's impossible to predict how high those risks are, researchers say. ...more

December 5, 2008

Small brain lesions, detectable only on scans, have been linked to the loss of thinking skills and dementia. ...more

November 29, 2008