In recent years, however, increasing attention has been directed to the prominence of these symptoms in elderly patients suffering from dementia. Behavioral alterations such as avoltion, apathy, social withdrawal and emotional disengagement appear to be commonly found in patients suffering from Alzheimer...
In order to improve the accuracy of a procedure for detecting symptoms of dementia, features of ocular oscillation are examined, in addition to features of waveforms of pupil light reflexes (PLRs) of both eyes in response to blue or red light pulses directed toward either eye. An experiment wa...
A randomized trial of risperidone, placebo, and haloperidol for behavioral symptoms of dementia Objective: To compare effects of risperidone with placebo (efficacy and tolerability) and haloperidol (tolerability) for treating demented patients with ag... PP De Deyn,K Rabheru,A Rasmussen,... - 《...
Although dementia can occur at any age, it is primarily experienced by the elderly. Approximately 40% of seniors over 80 years of age have some symptoms of dementia. However, it's difficult to determine what is normal age related memory issues and what is elderly dementia. Sometimes the term...
Dementia in community-dwelling elderly patients: A comparison of survey data, medicare claims, cognitive screening, reported symptoms, and activity limitat... Dementia in community-dwelling elderly patients: A comparison of survey data, medicare claims, cognitive screening, reported symptoms, and ...
To determine the rate of psychiatric symptoms among elderly people with learning disabilities who have dementia. Design . Survey. Setting . The general community of a county in the UK. Participants . The whole population of people with learning disabilities who were 65 years or over. The total ...
Dementia commonly occurs in elderly people with intellectual disability, especially those with Down's syndrome. The non-cognitive symptoms of dementia can ... SA Cooper,VP Prasher - 《Journal of Intellectual Disability Research》 被引量: 97发表: 2010年 Dementia syndrome and risk factors in adults...
The active users of the robot were further evaluated for emotional and behavioral symptoms.doi:10.1002/alz.036453Kelvin KF TsoiTak Kit ChanRuby SM CheungYuk Sheung WongMan Yi WAILai Kok ChanKelvin TanVivian LouJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdAlzheimer's & Dementia...
Dementia is a term used to describe a decline in mental abilities, including memory, language, and logical thinking, that is severe enough to affect daily living. When older people start to have these types of symptoms, they often worry about Alzheimer disease. Alzheimer disease is a neurodegene...
The number of depressive symptoms (NDS) and the prevalence rate of depression (PRD) were computed for the whole sample as well as according to age and gender. To evaluate the independent effects of age as well as gender with regard to the risk of being depressed, multivariate analyses were ...