Presents a study which looks at the effect of estrogen use on psychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia. Reasons for the intake of estrogen in men; Methodology used to conduct the study; Results of the study; Limitations of the study.Wiseman...
Symptoms of dementia with Lewy bodies usually center on a combination of autonomic disturbances, changes in behavior and cognition, and the emergence of movement and sleep disorders. Visual hallucinations and loss of visual and spatial abilities (e.g., judging the distances of objects) are common ...
Joan Diaz, now 65, started losing her memory and showing dementia symptoms about six years ago. Her kids, Claire and Pete, thought the memory lapses were typical signs of women her age. "It began with little things like forgetting where she put something," Pete recalls. "She also began ...
Since current medical therapies for dementia do not appear to affect its long-term course, the potential benefit of screening may be in devising effective interventions that can help patients and caregivers prepare for managing the symptoms and consequences of dementia. Research Needs and Gaps More ...
in dementia, in both research and care practice, there are sometimes implicit and (rarely) explicit acknowledgments of the significance of gender (Sandberg,2018a). For example, a qualitative study by Hellström et al. (2015), on experiences of the home and household chores among women with ...
Though FTD patients make up around 15 percent of the world's total dementia sufferers, Huang told Xinhua that many suffer in silence, and the best way to help these patients is transition from the goal of fighting symptoms to that of finding a cure. ...
Women with a longer reproductive period had an elevated risk for dementia in old age, compared with those who were fertile for a shorter period, a population-based study from the University of Gothenburg shows.
The low frequency of FTD in our study could therefore be due to the higher inclusion criterion age cut-off of 60 years. Patients with initial behavioral symptoms with FTD could have been referred to the psychiatric clinic and not the memory clinic. The highest age of symptom onset of 70.9 ...
Dementia is a descriptive name for the group of symptoms and signs seen in these conditions. General medical nursing and social care is the same for "dementia" whatever the underlying cause. Description of the different types is beyond the scope of this book. Differential diagnosis between even ...
Study of menopausal symptoms, and perceptions about menopause among women at a rural community in Kerala Menopausal health demands priority in Indian scenario due to increase in life expectancy and growing population of menopausal women. Most are either unawar... SA Borker,PP Venugopalan,SN Bhat ...