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Development of an awareness based intervention to enhance quality of life in severe dementia: trial platform
... with severe dementia, we anticipate that most, if not all, participants will be unable to give informed ...with severe dementia; the concern regarding dignity and human rights of such indi- ...
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Silent and suffering: a pilot study exploring gaps between theory and practice in pain management for people with severe dementia in residential aged care facilities
... with severe dementia within ...with dementia, we recommend early, proactive consideration and management of pain in the approach to behaviors of ...
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A painful experience of limited understanding: healthcare professionals’ experiences with palliative care of people with severe dementia in Norwegian nursing homes
... The healthcare professionals often experienced that work- ing with patients with severe dementia gave them a feeling of coming up short. A practical nurse expressed the follow- ing about what was most ...
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Pain in elderly people with severe dementia: A systematic review of behavioural pain assessment tools
... The Pain Assessment IN Advanced Dementia Scale (PAINAD) by Warden et al (2003) was developed to assess pain in individuals with advanced dementia [49,50]. The scale can be described as a modification of the ...
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Item distribution, internal consistency and inter-rater reliability of the German version of the QUALIDEM for people with mild to severe and very severe dementia
... to severe dementia and six items (12, 16, 20, 23, 25, 31) for people with very severe dementia indicate that these items are less informative when based on seven response ...
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The effectiveness of occupational therapy for persons with moderate and severe dementia
... Eleven medical studies were selected for the report. Due to their study design (five reviews, six randomised con- trolled trials [RCT]) the publications have a high level of evidence. When analysing the results it must ...
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Continuation versus discontinuation of treatment for severe dementia: randomized, pragmatic, open-label, clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of continuing drug treatment in patients with severe dementia (STOP-DEM)
... advanced dementia. A total of 302 community-dwelling patients with severe dementia, Alzheimer ’ s disease, with or without a coexisting diagnosis of vascular dementia, and a score of 10 or ...
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Impact of physical activity on activity of daily living in moderate to severe dementia: a critical review
... to severe dementia remains very ...with dementia is growing, reducing ADL dependence contributes to a better control of costs and alleviates family and caregiver burdens ...
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Tube feeding decreases pneumonia rate in patients with severe dementia: comparison between pre- and post-intervention
... without dementia found no dif- ferences between the two groups ...in severe dementia between patients with and without ...in severe dementia, and compared the occurrence of pneumonia ...
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Perceived barriers and facilitators in providing palliative care for people with severe dementia: the healthcare professionals’ experiences
... of dementia care and qualitative ...with severe dementia in long-term care facilities? Follow-up questions regarding potential bar- riers and facilitators were asked during the interview (for ...
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Two Cases of Severe Dementia Showing Dramatic Improvement after Denture Placement
... Severe dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, is intractable and ...of severe dementia after den- ture ...with severe dementia, were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease by the ...
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Clinimetric properties of the electronic Pain Assessment Tool (ePAT) for aged-care residents with moderate to severe dementia
... in dementia patients who were ≥65 years of age, living in a facility for ≥3 months, and had Psychogeriatric Assessment Scales – cognitive scores ...moderate–severe dementia (Psychogeriatric ...
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The Barriers and Facilitators for Recognising Distress in People with Severe Dementia on General Hospital Wards.
... In order that the data gathered were relevant, a topic guide was used. Questions were deliberately open and non-descriptive, allowing participants to convey their own understanding of distress, how it presents in a ...
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Clinical characteristics associated with the onset of delirium among long-term nursing home residents
... and dementia [7–9]) are similar to those found among hospitalized patients, there are notable differences in the course of delirium [2, 3] and patients’ exposure to ...to severe dementia [13], but ...
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'Blossoming spirits': communication despite dementia
... Or can skilled communication help to affirm a vulnerable elderly person’s very being? The premise of this paper is that through communication, relationship can and should be established despite the very real barriers of ...
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The use of multi sensory stimulation to improve functional performance in older people with dementia: a randomised single blind trial
... These two studies, although inconclusive in their findings, offer some guidance for exploring the positive effects seen elsewhere in MSEs (Baker et al., 1997; Hope, 1998; Long & Haig, 1992; Pinkney, 1997; Spaull et ...
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Rest-activity rhythms in small scale homelike care and traditional care for residents with dementia
... Observation scores of the nursing staff also showed no significant differences between the groups for restless- ness and repetitive behavior for the residents with moderate to severe dementia. The ...
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Study of the prevalence of isolated vitamin B12 deficiency related dementia in patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital
... Thus, severe dementia, shorter duration, focal neurological signs, and a vegetarian diet are significantly associated with the development of B12 ...elderly dementia patients as it is a treatable ...
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Scalability and internal consistency of the German version of the dementia-specific quality of life instrument QUALIDEM in nursing homes – a secondary data analysis
... Our analysis is based on a large sample of people with dementia at all stages of the disease. Some sub-analyses are based on a small sample size of n = 50. The large correlation with previous findings with respect ...
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The Effects of Music Therapy on Cognition, Psychiatric Symptoms, and Activities of Daily Living in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
... of dementia influence the efficacy in different ways, we enrolled AD patients with mild, moderate, or severe dementia and the participants with each grade of severity were divided into three groups ...
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