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dementiaAnticipated prognosis of two months [as per the AMBER care pathway guidance**] Family Caregiver English speakingLiving in local catchment areaFamily caregiver of a palliative patient aged 65+ who had used the study site Emergency Department Non-English speaking *adapted from: Beynon T, ...
A CSF biomarker reflecting the extent of early alterations of neurogenesis in MCI or in nondemented patients with memory loss would be extremely valuable for longitudinal studies, for early diagnosis and patient stratification, or for monitoring treatment efficacy. Moreover, strategies aimed at ...
Depression can masquerade as dementia in the elderly and must be considered in a client with memory loss. A 70-year-old retired auto mechanic comes to the office because his neighbor is concerned about the client's memory. The client admits to misplacing his keys more often and forgetting ...
Thus the discovery of signaling pathways that enhance adult neurogenesis may lead to therapeutic strategies for improving memory loss due to aging or disease. This chapter endeavors to review the literature in the field, with particular focus on (1) the role of hippocampal neurogenesis in cognition...
Also, longer caregiving hours, a male care recipient (CR), and the presence of CR's memory and behavior problems predicted higher CG burden. The interaction between stressors and perceived burden showed that social support provided a buffering effect for CGs experiencing higher burden perception. ...
A 21-year-old woman with no history of any childhood illness, no family history of heart or neurodegenerative disease, no pertinent social history including unbalanced nutritional habits or illicit drug or alcohol use, and no history of major head trauma was admitted to our emergency care unit ...
activities whilst three reported negative changes in terms of nervousness, feeling worse at the end of therapy and becoming more housebound. Three of the wait-list group participants reported changes they had hoped for, but did not happen, namely: a wish to change memory of trauma, to change ...
A Special Care Unit of one long-term care center A single subject withdrawal experiment N = 3 elderly (mean age 88 years) female inpatients with dementia. Two weeks of 30 min daily individualized painting sessions. Observations targeted toward measuring participant observable alertness on scale 0...
for those living at home. Buckinx et al. [32] calculated the caloric needs of NH residents via indirect calorimetry and estimated a PAL of 1.29 ± 0.3—a value lower than that found in healthy independent people [36]. In sick older people, the PAL was as high as 1.23 [36]. This ...