dementia patients
Creativity with Dementia Patients
... treating dementia patients with art therapeutic ...of dementia patients, on the ground that the patients do not have the capacity to im- prove thier own ...old patients will be ...
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Cardiovascular medication burden in dementia disorders: a nationwide study of 19,743 dementia patients in the Swedish Dementia Registry
... different dementia disorders. Methods: We obtained information about dementia patients from the Swedish Dementia ...Registry. Patients were diagnosed with one of these dementia ...
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Aggression Detection in Alzheimers and Dementia Patients
... The main aim of our project is to provide a solution to patient-on-patient and patient-on-caretaker violence mainly concentrated on people suffering from Alzheimer’s and Dementia. This is done by considering ...
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Validity and Reliability of the Persian Version of Lawton Instru-mental Activities of Daily Living Scale in Patients with Dementia
... The IADL assessment scales that utilized in dementia patients are Alzheimer Disease Cooperative Study Activities of Daily Living Inventory ADCS-ADL, the Blessed Dementia Rating Scale Ble[r] ...
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Research protocol of the NeedYD-study (Needs in Young onset Dementia): a prospective cohort study on the needs and course of early onset dementia
... in Dementia (IDDD) is used to assess the activities of daily ...severe dementia patients ...in Dementia (CSDD) [41] is administered to identify depressive symptoms in the ...
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Comparison of activities of daily living after osteoporotic hip fracture surgery in patients admitted from home and from geriatric health service facilities
... in patients who underwent surgery for hip fracture through an investigation of living arrangements, the presence of dementia, and other complications of ...99 patients who lived either at home or in ...
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DEMENTIA PATIENT MOVEMENT DETECTION AND FALL DETECTION USING SMART PHONE TECHNOLOGY
... Dementia is progressive – the symptoms will get worse over time. Although there is no cure, treatments can slow the progression of the disease, and there are ways of helping to keep it manageable. Definitely we ...
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Quantitative evaluation of severity of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in patients with vascular dementia
... Although the present findings revealed similar trends for DFA values from actigraph and the clinical patterns for VD-BPSD, there were no significant differences in some patterns because of the limited number of ...
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Behavior management approach for agitated behavior in Japanese patients with dementia: a pilot study
... health professionals, such as assisted living residence or care staff in nursing or residential homes, to develop skills in behavioral management. Although these studies resulted in significant clinical improvements in ...
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The impact of young onset dementia:a study in epidemiology, clinical features, caregiving and health economics of dementia in younger people
... Almost one third (29%) of the young onset dementia patients in this study were in institutional care, a figure which also needs comparison with studies of older people with dementia. Unf[r] ...
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Psychometric properties of the geriatric quality of life-dementia in older adults with dementia or mild cognitive impairment living in nursing homes
... with dementia have been ...with dementia (DEMQOL) [10], Alzheimer Dis- ease Related Quality of Life (ADRQL) [11], Dementia Quality of Life (DQoL) [12], Psychological Well-Being in Cognitively ...
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Abstract Geriatric patients with dementia and hypertension
... In the proposed project, we adopt a user-centered strategy to assemble needs of patients, caregivers, and clinicians. We have identified a range of ODLs for gaining a greater understanding of DAH patients’ ...
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DEPRESSION IN PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE WITH DEMENTIA
... (4). Dementia is present in more than 30% of PD patients, especially in those over 70 years old (5, ...and dementia are often connected comor- bidities; however, depression can be considered a risk ...
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The Relation between Apolipoprotein E4 Genotype and Vascular Dementia
... In our study we found that the mean BMI was significantly higher in the controls group (28.4 ± 7.5) than in the demented group (25.0 ± 7.7). This result was consistent with Huseyin and colleagues [40]. This relation may ...
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Search | Preprints
... of dementia care by fostering close collaboration relationships with staff from other referring clinics for reliable follow-up and completion of recommended ...
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Recognition and knowledge of dementia and depression in the elderly by general practitioners
... for dementia, as it is very difficult to detect mild dementia using screening instruments in community settings (Kay et al, 1985; Henderson & Jorm, ...
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Prescribing of psychotropic medication for nursing home residents with dementia: a general practitioner survey
... Three iterative strategies were required to recruit enough Australian GPs to ensure an adequate sample size. Initially, GPs with experience in patient care in nursing homes were recruited through professional body ...
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Evaluating a dementia learning community: exploratory study and research implications
... in dementia care, its government has recently set targets for such training [6, ...for dementia are ...agency Dementia Link Worker (DLW) scheme in Glouces- tershire, which reportedly reduced ...
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Autonomic dysfunction: A comparative study of patients with Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia - A pilot study.
... the patients, whereas orthostatic standing test was normal in all the patients in whom the test was ...the patients. Majority of these patients (67%) had features of food faddism with ...
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<p>Differentiation Between Dementia With Lewy Bodies And Alzheimer’s Disease Using Voxel-Based Morphometry Of Structural MRI: A Multicenter Study</p>
... 624 patients who were clinically diagnosed with either DLB (239 patients) or AD (385 patients) from 10 institutes using different MR scanners with different magnetic fi eld ...414 patients were ...
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