Older adults with dementia
The effects of video observation of chewing during lunch on masticatory ability, food intake, cognition, activities of daily living, depression, and quality of life in older adults with dementia: a study protocol of an adjusted randomized controlled trial
... This study aims to examine the effects of video observa- tion of chewing during lunchtime, on masticatory ability, food intake, cognitive function, ADL, depression, and QoL in older adults with ...
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<p>Determinants Of Antipsychotic Drugs Prescription Among Community-Living Older Adults With Dementia: A Population-Based Study Using Health Information Systems In The Lazio Region, Italy</p>
... with dementia is to start the medication at a low dosage, up-titrate the dosage slowly and to regularly review (every 3 months) the treatment with the intent to minimize treatment ...in dementia should be ...
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Discomfort and agitation in older adults with dementia
... This correlational study used a cross-sectional design. Thirteen registered nurses (RNs) from three long-term care facilities provided data on forty-nine residents. The RNs were all women, had a mean of 15 years of ...
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Personality change in older adults with dementia: Occurrence and association with severity of cognitive impairment
... with dementia in comparison to the comparison group of normally aging older ...without dementia were evaluated by informants as having un- dergone personality change and to show less appropriate ...
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Examining the impact of familiarity on faucet usability for older adults with dementia
... There are many interesting results that would benefit from further investigation, such as the progression of self-perceived difficulty as dementia level increases. Long- term studies to understand how ADLs are ...
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Decision-making experiences of family members of older adults with moderate dementia towards community and residential care home services: a grounded theory study protocol
... Chinese older adults with dementia and their family members, it is important to understand the decision-making processes and types of decisions that are made to better support these older ...
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A Study of the Relationship between Social Interaction and Dementia in Older Adults
... in adults aged 65 years and above poses a higher risk of falling and earlier loss of autonomy ...to older adults needing to be taken care ...for dementia, a complete cure is difficult to ...
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Correlates of health and financial literacy in older adults without dementia
... diagnose dementia, and those with dementia were excluded from analyses to re- duce ...were older than par- ticipants in most prior studies resulting in a cohort at greater risk for adverse health ...
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<p>Home-Based Cognitively Assistive Robots: Maximizing Cognitive Functioning and Maintaining Independence in Older Adults Without Dementia</p>
... in older adults has occurred in the rapidly-expanding fi eld of socially assistive robots (SAR), 7,8 where SAR represents the integration of assistive robots and socially intelligent robots leveraged to ...
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Predictors of unmet needs in Chilean older people with dementia: a cross-sectional study
... address dementia in Public Healthcare System are focused on older people’s physical health, however, several studies have pointed out the relevance of psychosocial aspects in PWD [8, ...for older ...
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Incidence of hip fracture among long-term care insurance beneficiaries with dementia: comparison of home care and institutional care services
... among older adults is not only a major health issue but also preventable by providing proper care, but there is a lack of studies on the association between type of long-term care (LTC) service and hip ...
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Cross-sectional associations of plasma vitamin D with cerebral β-amyloid in older adults at risk of dementia
... It is also feasible that vitamin D hypovitaminosis is linked to cognitive decline via Aβ-independent pro- cesses. Indeed, 25(OH)D insufficiency is associated with an increase in white matter abnormalities indicative of ...
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An Exploration of Volition: Caregiver Perceptions of Persons with Dementia
... of older adults with moderate ...the older adults with dementia, and (b) caregivers develop a script regarding the volitional abilities of the older adults with ...of ...
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Investigating the genetics of hippocampal volume in older adults without dementia
... a dementia diagnosis, limited English or a medical/psycho- logical condition that would prevent them from completing assessments, an age and educa- tion-adjusted MMSE score of <24, psychotic symptoms or a ...
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Pain Assessment and Treatment Challenges in Patients with Dementia
... ever older adults in pain also have severe cognitive impairment – which go along with lack of language and abstract thinking – the task of judging pain becomes even more ...Accordingly, older ...
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Elder abuse prevalence in community settings: a systematic review and meta analysis
... with dementia, 14 provided prevalence data for any abuse that had occurred since the victims became older adults (ie, aged 60 or 65 years and older), ten focused on subpopulations (eg, ...
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Prevalence and outcomes of delirium in community and non-acute care settings in people without dementia: a report from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging
... One study found that 10% of a sample of 199 older adults without dementia aged 85+ who were community- dwelling and free of dementia and delirium at baseline developed an episode of deli[r] ...
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Word word Relations in Dementia and Typical Aging
... ssssss Older adults tend to suffer a decline in some of their cognitive capabilities, being language one of least affected ...of older adults with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), vascular ...
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Musical dual-task training in patients with mild-to-moderate dementia: a randomized controlled trial
... We investigated the effects of MDTT on attention control, dual-task performance, balance, falls efficacy, and agita- tion in older adults with mild-to-moderate dementia. We hypothesized that MDTT ...
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Impaired olfaction is associated with cognitive decline and neurodegeneration in the brain
... incident dementia cases over the follow-up ...incident dementia cases, only the association with episodic memory remained signifi- ...and dementia, rather than a marker of already present cognitive ...
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