In addition to access to care services and tailored support, post-diagnostic care also includes access to cognitive enhancing medication, depending on the dementia subtype. People with Alzheimer’s disease (AD),
other: frontotemporal and vascular, dementia not specified, Lewy-Body dementia (including Parkinson's dementia). c n=78. Activities at home and in the nursing home Thirty-nine (48.1 %) participants indicated that the person with dementia performed less activities after nursing home admission compare...
Altered emotional or ‘hedonic’ behavioural responses to sound are increasingly recognised in patients with dementia. Impaired processing of emotional prosody has been described in AD, Parkinson’s disease, behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, and progressive aphasia syndromes [62–65], and impaire...
The results suggest the presence of a sex-related regional vulnerability to alpha-synuclein pathology, possibly complicated also by the higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease co-pathology in females, as previously reported in pDLB populations....
19,20 However, it has not been thoroughly examined whether poor vision or eye disease are risk factors for cognitive impairment. The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a study with more than 20 years of follow-up including detailed clinical information, presents an opportunity to investigate a ...
Few studies conducted in older patients with Parkinson’s disease and healthy elderly [42, 43], older patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [44], older adults with depression [45], or older community-dwelling fallers [46] used mid-term tests (at week 3–6) to assess physical ...
Data were analyzed from January 1 to July 31, 2020. Main Outcomes and Measures Dementia was defined using the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chronic Conditions Warehouse diagnosis codes for Alzheimer disease and related disorders or senile dementia. Incident diagnoses were defined by at ...
Drug target Mendelian randomization (MR) was employed to anticipate the on-target effects of lower CETP concentration (μg/mL) on plasma lipids, cardiovascular disease outcomes, autopsy confirmed Lewy body dementia (LBD), as well as Parkinson’s dementia. Results MR analysis of lower CETP concentr...
for cardiovascular disease, stroke and vascular dementia [2–4]. Hhcy has been shown to induce endothelial dysfunction by decreasing the bioavailability of NO, and increasing vascular oxidative stress [5]. The decreased NO level has been demonstrated to contribute to the pathogenesis of dementia [...
In GBD 2019, the prevalence of dementia was adjusted downwards to account for dementia that is caused by other clinical diseases (eg, clinical stroke, Parkinson's disease, Down syndrome, and traumatic brain injury).26 This correction ensures that the GBD cause list is mutually exclusive. However...