This article explored the ways in which living with dementia brings potentials to queer the concept of "successful aging" and associated notions of being human. Regarding the progressive development of dementia, it can be assumed that people affected, no matter how hard they try, will sooner or...
Advanced care planning (ACP) has the potential to improve outcomes for people with dementia. The aim of this review is to establish the strength of the evidence and provide decision makers with a clear understanding of what is known about ACP for people living with dementia. Design Evidence ...
Advanced care planning (ACP) has the potential to improve outcomes for people with dementia. The aim of this review is to establish the strength of the evidence and provide decision makers with a clear understanding of what is known about ACP for people living with dementia. Design Evidence ...
with up to 73.1% of residents reporting not having sufficient things to do to get through the day [7]. People with dementia are still significantly more likely to have their activity needs unmet than their
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The article concludes with suggested practice strategies which involve: (i) providing clear and accessible information about safeguarding; (ii) thinking about the location of safeguarding meetings; (iii) building relationships with people living with dementia; (iv) using flexible timesc...
Preventive medications are potential targets for deprescribing in older adults with dementia as goals of care change from preventive to palliative. Yet, pr
Therefore, the aim of this systematic review was to determine the evidence-base on prognostic factors for poor outcomes in people living with dementia that could be assessed in primary care medical records. Methods To identify the evidence base for prognostic factors of poor outcomes in people ...
Family caregivers of people living with dementia can experience feelings of burden and stress but the concept of sense of coherence has been identified as an important protective trait against the negative impact of caregiving. Despite this, there has been no psychometric evaluation of the Sense of...
Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis prospective, open-label, pragmatic randomized clinical trial, embedded in 2 large national health plans, was conducted from April 2022 to June 2023. The trial included patients with AD or ADRD and use of any of 3 drug classes targeted for deprescribing (ant...