An 82-year-old woman who was recently pronounced dead at a New York nursing home was later discovered to be alive by funeral home staff. This follows a similar incident in Iowa where a 66-year-old woman with early-onset dementia was declared dead by ... ...
Living With Early Onset Dementia In contemporary society dementia is socially, culturally, and professionally constructed as an older person's disease. And although the formal definition o... Harris,Keady 被引量: 84发表: 2004年 Backpackers and Other Younger Travellers to the Great Barrier Reef: ...
The subacute group had a higher proportion of females, were less likely to be living at home prior to hospitalization, and had a higher prevalence of heart failure and dementia. The post-acute orthopedics group had a higher proportion of females, greater physical function (FIM), and had fewer...
Type 2diabetesis the most common type of diabetes. It is a chronic condition in which blood glucose (sugar) can no longer be regulated. There are two reasons for this. First, the cells of the body become resistant toinsulin(insulin resistant). Insulin works like a key to let glucose (bl...
For example, it was recently estimated that more than 30 million people aged over 80 years will be residing in the United States by 2050; about half of these subjects will suffer from dementia and about 3 million will be diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease [7]. The expected increase in ...
for irregular drug intake. Besides this, sometimes, a patient’s expectations regarding the efficacy of therapy might be nonrealistic and could lead to the discontinuation of therapy. Erratic drug-taking in patients with early PD will not significantly affect the patient’s functioning but will ...
References for this Review were identified through searches of PubMed with the search terms “Diabetes”, “obesity”, “GLP-1”, “GIP”, “anti-obesity medication”, “co-agonist”, “MASH”and “dementia” from 1995 until August 2024. Articles were also identified through searches of the ...
Presence of the CYP2B6 516G>T polymorphism, increased plasma efavirenz concentrations and early neuropsychiatric side effects in South African HIV-infected patients. AIDS Res Ther. 2010;7:32. Article PubMed PubMed Central CAS Google Scholar Dickinson L, Amin J, Else L, Boffito M, Egan D, ...
A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has revealed that a treatment taken daily by people who have had organ transplants to prevent organ rejection protects against Alzheimer's disease. An early online version of this paper
Obesity has long been known to be a risk factor for osteoarthritis of the knee. Weight reduction is recommended for people who areoverweightwith early signs of osteoarthritis of the hands because they are at a risk for also developing osteoarthritis of their knees. Foods to avoid include those ...