The Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) is a tool used by doctors to assess the severity of primary degenerative dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease. The scale consists of seven stages, each associated with different symptoms. [4] Stage one is characterized by no cognitive decline, but in ...
Research Highlights07 Nov 2024Nature Aging Volume: 4, P: 1521 The Clinical Dementia Rating scale is useful but caution is needed The Clinical Dementia Rating scale has been used in clinical research for decades. The Vargas-Gonzales study raises concerns about the subjective nature of the instrument...
LetterOpen Access12 Nov 2024Nature Aging Informant characteristics influence Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of Boxes scores-based staging of Alzheimer’s disease Vargas-Gonzalez et al. report an influence of informant characteristics on the Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB), a scale designe...
Aim: To develop and validate a scale for measuring professional caregivers' ethical self-efficacy in dementia care. Background: Professional caregivers of people with dementia make ethical decisions on a day-to-day basis, and it is important that they feel confident when doing so. Moreover, conf...
Unfortunately, a large-scale, well-designed, follow-up study released in 2008 showed that Ginkgo extract neither prevented nor delayed AD.Some alternative practitioners advise people with AD to take supplements of phosphatidylcholine, vitamin B12, gotu kola, ginseng, St. John's Wort, rosemary, ...
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The Clinical Dementia Rating scale has been used in clinical research for decades. The Vargas-Gonzales study raises concerns about the subjective nature of the instrument by indicating that sex, the relationship of the informant to the participant, and the ethnicity of the participant can ...
age andfibrinogenlevels. The developed guidelines of preferred reporting items forsystematic reviewsand meta-analyses (PRISMA) (protocol number: PROSPERO CRD42019127818) were recorded (Moher et al., 2009) (Table 2). The quality of selected studies was estimated by Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) (Sta...
Moreover, previous studies have primarily focused on all-cause dementia (ACD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the potential of metabolites to predict vascular dementia (VaD) has not yet been investigated. Therefore, there is a clear need to conduct comprehensive, large-scale metabolomic ...
A number of different assessments of cognitive decline had been undertaken including the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination- revised (ACE-R), Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR), Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG), Dementia Rating Scale (DRS), Modified Mini ...