Browsing Dementia by Subject "Dementia"
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Are PROMs just for patients? Piloting the Long-Term Conditions Questionnaire for use with patients and carers in memory clinic settings
(2020-05)Background & Aims The Long-Term Conditions Questionnaire (LTCQ) was developed for assessing the overall impact of long-term health conditions (LTCs) on quality of life. Enhancing quality of life for people affected by ... -
Barriers and facilitators to implementing dementia care mapping in care homes: results from the DCM™ EPIC trial process evaluation
(2019-02)Background: Psychosocial person-centred interventions are considered best practice for addressing complex behaviours and care needs such as agitation and anxiety, and for improving the quality of life of people with ... -
Can dietary supplements maintain cognition in mid- to late-life?
(2020-12)Cognitive health, and prevention of its decline to dementia, has risen in prominence with a corresponding exploration of modifiable risk factors to prevent a decline in cognitive health with age. This commentary discusses ... -
Care needs of people with dementia in the peri-operative environment: A systematic review
(2018-11)The care of people with dementia within the hospital setting is challenging for healthcare professionals. Hospital design and services are not optimized for people with dementia, owing to the lack of preparation of healthcare ... -
Connections Between Insomnia and Cognitive Aging.
(2019-06)Insomnia is a common sleep disorder among older adults, and a risk factor for poor physical and mental health. However, the relationship between insomnia and cognitive health is not well understood. Here, we review ... -
Development and Validation of a Novel Dementia Risk Score in the UK Biobank Cohort
(2021-03)INTRODUCTION: Current prognostic models of dementia have had limited success in consistently identifying at-risk individuals. We aimed to develop and validate a novel dementia risk score (DRS) using the UK Biobank cohort. ... -
Effect of trazodone on cognitive decline in people with dementia: Cohort study using UK routinely collected data
(2021-09)Evidence in mouse models has found that the antidepressant trazodone may be protective against neurodegeneration. We therefore aimed to compare cognitive decline of people with dementia taking trazodone with those taking ... -
Evaluating the Feasibility of Frequent Cognitive Assessment Using the Mezurio Smartphone App: Observational and Interview Study in Adults With Elevated Dementia Risk
(2020-04)Background: By enabling frequent, sensitive, and economic remote assessment, smartphones will facilitate the detection of early cognitive decline at scale. Previous studies have sustained participant engagement with remote ... -
Health Outcome Prioritization in Alzheimer's Disease: Understanding the Ethical Landscape.
(2020-07)BACKGROUND:Dementia has been described as the greatest global health challenge in the 21st century on account of longevity gains increasing its incidence, escalating health and social care pressures. These pressures highlight ... -
The impact of assistive technology on burden and psychological well-being in informal caregivers of people with dementia (ATTILA Study)
(2020-09)Introduction: Assistive technology and telecare (ATT) may alleviate psychological burden in informal caregivers of people with dementia. This study assessed the impact of ATT on informal caregivers’ burden and psychological ... -
The impact of social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with dementia and caregivers
(2022-04)Objective: Social distancing to limit COVID-19 transmission has led to extensive lifestyle changes, including for people with dementia (PWD). The aim of this study, therefore, was to assess the impact of lockdown on the ... -
Memory tests for the diagnosis of MCI: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(2019-03)MCI is regarded as a prodrome to dementia, involving subjective memory complaint, greater forgetfulness than one would expect for age and intact activities of daily living in a patient not meeting criteria for dementia. ... -
Methotrexate and relative risk of dementia amongst patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multi-national multi-database case-control study
(2020-04)Background Inflammatory processes have been shown to play a role in dementia. To understand this role, we selected two anti-inflammatory drugs (methotrexate and sulfasalazine) to study their association with dementia ... -
Minocycline at 2 Different Dosages vs Placebo for Patients With Mild Alzheimer Disease A Randomized Clinical Trial
(2019-11)IMPORTANCE There are no disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia. Minocycline is anti-inflammatory, protects against the toxic effects of β-amyloid in vitro and in animal ... -
Patient attitudes towards remote memory clinic assessment
(2021-12)Background: Due to demand on UK memory clinic services, most patients have limited consultant interaction before diagnosis/discharge. Technology offers an opportunity for remote assessment, from telephone/video-based ... -
Personalised treatment for cognitive impairment in dementia: development and validation of an artificial intelligence model
(2022-02)Donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine and memantine are potentially effective interventions for cognitive impairment in dementia, but the use of these drugs has not been personalised to individual patients yet. We examined ... -
Short-term memory advantage for brief durations in human APOE ε4 carriers
(2020-06)The Apolipoprotein-E (APOE) ε4 gene allele, the highest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, has paradoxically been well preserved in the human population. One possible explanation offered by evolutionary ... -
Treatment for depression comorbid with dementia
(2019-11)Depression is a common comorbidity in dementia. Randomised controlled studies of antidepressants do not show a significant improvement in depressive symptoms in patients with comorbid dementia and are known to lead to an ... -
Treatment of Inappropriate Sexual Behavior in Dementia
(2016-08)Inappropriate sexual behavior (ISB) is a relatively common and potentially disruptive form of behavior in people with dementia. It can cause considerable distress and put placements and people at risk. Yet it is poorly ... -
Valproate in dementia: time to move on? Commentary on…Cochrane Corner
(2019-02)Baillon et al ’s Cochrane review included 430 participants with agitation in dementia from five randomised controlled trials. Overall, the reviewers found that valproate was no better than placebo for the treatment of ...
