There is a wide range of progression rates for Alzheimer's disease. According to the Mayo Clinic, people with Alzheimer's live three to 11 years after being diagnosed. There are, however, many people who live for two decades or more with the disease. Kim Trevey Load MoreCall...
47 Because studies concerned memory clinic patients and/or individuals with cognitive symptoms, results may not be directly translatable to general community-dwelling older populations nor populations with comorbidity, preventing memory clinic consultation. Overall, validity seems high because most studies ...
Mayo Clinic neurologists were involved in the diagnosis and care of all patients except for a single PD patient without dementia who had rest tremor–predominant PD. As given in Table 3, there was a trend toward earlier onset of parkinsonism in the group with dementia, whereas the age at ...
In the absence of a gold standard or consensus for determining driving competency, clinicians may request assistance from a driving clinic or refer to other subspecialists in the community such as a geriatrician, psychiatrist, neurologist, or neuropsychologist. A Driver Rehabilitation Specialist (DRS)...
Vision loss in the elderly can occur due to age-related degenerative diseases such as cataract, age-related macular degeneration, presbyopia, or glaucoma. These causes of visual loss might worsen the underlying comorbidities such as depression or dementi
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M: Yes, she meets me for coffee, yeah. . . . [later] It's a café, yes, yeah. Well, I usually go there after. . . with [daughter], and I also go there with [husband], and when he goes. . . when we go to the Alzheimer's clinic, we go to have lunch there. And I ...
Using a qualitative study design, in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with caregivers (N = 13) at an urban geriatric clinic to elicit community resource needs, barriers to and facilitators of resource use and how to optimize clinical referrals to community resources....
We obtained all types of clinical notes (eg, clinic visit notes, discharge summaries, and consultation notes) except narrative clinical reports (eg, radiology and pathology reports) documented during the study period. We further aggregated clinical notes by date, concatenating all notes documented on...
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