"We as a family were very reluctant to put him into a care home but as he had vascular dementia there really was no alternative. He settled into the home very quickly and really liked the staff and the residents. He would often tell me how lovely the place was and how lovely the peop...
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scant, compared with the amount of money that has flooded into the decades-long,headline-grabbingquest for pharmaceutical therapies."It's distressing that the public conversation about dementia is dominated by drug development, as if all that's needed were a magic pill," said Laura Gitlin, a p...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Social Determinants of Health and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias. 2023 Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures.Alzheimers Dement. 2023;19(4):1598-1695. Fatima K, Mehendale AM, Reddy H.Young-onset dementia and neurodegenerative disorders of the ...
From this selection, there are also examples of elderly day care centers (n = 3, 19% from the total of elderly day care centers), care homes (n = 18, 31% from the total of care homes), public equipment (n = 2, 40% from the total of public equipment), and hospitals (n = 1,...
"I'm very optimistic that something will happen" later this year, said Dr. Malaz Boustani, a professor at Indiana University who helped develop Eskenazi Health's Aging Brain Care program and who has been part of the discussions with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. ...
Blood-based biomarkers for dementia are gaining attention due to their non-invasive nature and feasibility in regular healthcare settings. Here, we explored the associations between 249 metabolites with all-cause dementia (ACD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and vascular dementia (VaD) and assessed ...
However, many primary care physicians, fearing the deterioration of a long-standing relationship with their patient, may be reluctant to be this forthcoming. If a physician decides to report an unsafe driver, most jurisdictions in the US will accept a formal letter. Physicians may be in a “...
Basting’s work has helped to transform facilities like that one. As an artist and scholar, she has infused art intodementiaand elder care, leveraging song, dance, improvisation, and theater to elicit communication and joy. Her ideas have spread to care centers across the country and individual...