Dementia causes impairments in one’s ability to think, reason, remember, and make decisions. There are different types of dementia, each with varying signs, symptoms, and stages.
In addition, maintaining household responsibilities for as long as possible can helpimprove the quality of lifeand prevent an individual from being chair-bound. In later stages, a patient's needs may change, and caregivers need to know how to care for themselves and their loved ones. While the...
It is estimated that a third of children know someone living with dementia, and there are now many picturebooks for young children that help to explain the changes dementia can bring to family life. Despite their number, there has been little examination of what these books communicate about he...
Dementia is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders among the elderly, imposing considerable social and economic burden worldwide. As the initial symptoms of dementia are often subtle, by the time patients seek medical assistance, their brains have often undergone pathological changes that wi...
Celecoxibandnaproxenfailed to reduce dementia incidence in cognitively healthy older adults with a family history of AD [20]. COX-2 inhibitors did not alter the progression of established AD. Mechanistic considerations In the early stages of AD, neuronal COX-2 expression is increased, but this exp...
Your loved one’s healthcare provider may talk with you about the stages of dementia. This is a way to determine how an older adult’s dementia symptoms have progressed and find the best treatment for their needs. There are several scales for rating dementia. One of the most commonly used...
Because of the frequency of missed and delayed dementia diagnoses in usual clinical practice,43 claims and registry data from such studies of prevalent dementia are likely to identify hospitalizations predominantly during middle and later stages of cognitive decline. Studies relying on claims data to ...
Among the 2 scores that can be calculated from the CDR scale (the 5-point scale CDR and the CDR-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB)), the CDR-SB score offers greater precision to determinate the stages of dementia and monitoring their evolution [2]. The CDR allows to measure not only cognition, ...
community-based psychosocial supports was associated with improved parent coping, psychological resilience and reduced psychological isolation. Analysis identified a critical need to prioritize access to integrated family-centred psychosocial supports throughout distinct stages of their child’s condition ...
For qualitative data, a thematic synthesis (Thomas and Harden, 2008) was done using NVivo 12 software. Thematic synthesis had three stages; 1) coding ‘line-by-line’, 2) developing ‘descriptive themes’ and 3) generating ‘analytical themes’. To be as comprehensive as possible, the line...