The attention to person deixis can be best manifested in the concept of “participation framework” (Goffman, 1981), within which the various interactional roles played by people and objects in narratives can be explained. Beyond the above-mentioned linguistic means, there are various discursive ...
Redirection to an enjoyable task is one way to support your loved one in times of stress or sadness. Allow them to speak and share their feelings completely until there is a pause in the conversation or an appropriate time to switch subjects. Often asking for assistance with a simple task, ...
Another large study which recruited exclusively from residential care settings [60] excluded all data collected directly from people with dementia from the analysis because of high levels of missing data, as the authors explained in their limitations section: ‘Owing to the variability in the ability...
Adjustment for apathy definition and duration of follow-up explained 95% of heterogeneity in patients with mild cognitive impairment; results seem generalizable to memory clinic populations. Meaning Apathy is a relevant, noninvasive, cheap, and easily implementable prognostic factor prodromal to dementia....
This is also supported and might be explained by a recent report of young AD patients having fewer co-pathologies in addition to AD, which leads to a more accurate risk prediction [39]. Another reason might be a genetic difference which was assumed by Gunn and colleagues showing that a PRS...
Mediation models with HbA1c level and insulin usage 1 and 5 years after termination tested whether changes in blood glucose or insulin usage explained associations between early termination of metformin and dementia incidence. Results The final analytic sample consisted of 12 220 early terminators (...
Since the approach is same as that for the construction of the PsyCo BPSD model, which is detailed in Sect. 2.2, only the aspects different are explained in this sub-section. 2.3.1 To select the behaviors, physiological states, and other factors for the model The influence of BPSD on da...
pleasant events and (2) there will be an indirect association of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia with blood pressure explained by the direct association between behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and caregivers’ higher activity restriction and lower engagement in pleasant ...
In general, the persistence of an unfavorable cognitive outcome years after the index episode also suggests that delirium is not marker of preexisting condition. Moreover, the association of delirium with g could not be explained by such factors as attrition, sex, sample size, and to a degree...
Given that many cognitive functions decline with age, this finding might be explained by the relatively young age of the sample (40-70 years); that is, differences in memory between individuals living in different neighborhood-level SES areas may be more likely to emerge at older ages, when ...