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May 21st, 2022 - End-of-life care differs by serious illness diagnosis. Cancer and dementia are serious illnesses that have been associated with less intensive end-of-life health care use. It is not known how health care utilization varies in the presence of >1 se...

May 21st, 2022 - This study examines multiple services are used across a population and the association between type and amount of services use with level of disability and living arrangement. This is a descriptive cross-sectional analysis examining HCBS use among...

May 21st, 2022 - Using a multi-cohort, Discovery-Replication-Validation design, we sought new plasma biomarkers that predict which PD individuals will experience cognitive decline. In 108 Discovery Cohort PD individuals and 83 Replication Cohort PD individuals, we...

May 21st, 2022 - Individuals with dementia residing in care homes can rely heavily on care staff to access activities and meaningful interactions. Previous research suggests that care home interactions can be short, fragmented and task-orientated due to staff work...

May 20th, 2022 - The Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia (CAIDE) study was initiated in 1998 with the main scope of investigating the potential role of modifiable risk and protective factors in the development of dementia. 2000 people, who, in mid-life...

Feb 6th, 2022 - The COVID-19 pandemic may have a disproportionate impact on people with dementia/mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to isolation and loss of services. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on ne...

Jun 7th, 2021 - Hearing, vision, and cognitive impairment commonly co-occur in older people. However, the rate of recognition and appropriate management of combined hearing and vision impairment in people with dementia impairment is low. The aim of this work was ...

Oct 21st, 2020 - Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal condition, and average life expectancy has increased substantially, from 25 years in 1983 to 60 years in 2020. Despite the unique clinical comorbidities among adults with Down syndrome, there are no cli...

Jul 30th, 2020 - Since 1989, four Canadian Consensus Conferences on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia (CCCDTD) have provided evidence-based dementia guidelines for Canadian clinicians and researchers. We present the results of the 5th CCCDTD, which convened ...

Jul 2nd, 2020 - Hearing and Vision Impairment in People With Dementia: A Guide for Clinicians.|2020|Leroi I,Constantinidou F,Langenbahn D,Heyn P,Yeung WK,|epidemiology,epidemiology,epidemiology,

May 20th, 2022 - The Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia (CAIDE) study was initiated in 1998 with the main scope of investigating the potential role of modifiable risk and protective factors in the development of dementia. 2000 people, who, in mid-life...

May 20th, 2022 - Objectives The primary objective is to explore if human subjects with neurodegenerative diseases exhibit different level of neuroinflammation, as measured by brain uptake of a 3rd generation [11C]ER176 TSPO ligand, compared to control subjects. Th...

May 20th, 2022 - With the increasing life span of our population, the prevalence of dementia syndromes is increasing. The most frequent cause of dementia is Alzheimer´s disease (AD), and still, it is not curable. Thus, AD is of increasing medical, social and econo...

May 20th, 2022 - Elasticity in the aorta buffers the body from damage due to pulsatile blood flow. Data from humans and mice show that with increasing age, vessels lose elasticity and become stiff. Vascular stiffness is associated with progressive cognitive impair...

May 20th, 2022 - Exercise is a promising strategy to slow or prevent the progression of cognitive decline and dementia. While resistance training (RT) is a popular form of exercise recommended for older adults for its putative role in the protection against sarcop...

May 20th, 2022 - Alcohol use and abuse is on the rise and is related to a host of acute and chronic health issues. Research indicates that alcohol use disorder is both widespread and undertreated, despite the availability of effective options. Recent research has ...

May 20th, 2022 - Nearly half of all US adults aged 45 and older have modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), including hypertension, low levels of physical activity, and obesity, new research shows. Data from the Centers for D...

May 19th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Kathrin LaFaver, MD: Hello, and welcome to Medscape. Today we'll be discussing highlights in movement disorders from the recent American Academy of Neurology (AAN) annual meeting. I have the great pleas...

May 17th, 2022 - Mark E. Williams, MD The lifecare community I worked in early in my career accommodated a wide variety of primarily affluent people from around the world. Caring for frail people who, in some cases, felt entitled was sometimes challenging but it w...

May 12th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Alcohol use disorder was found to be associated with a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in the entire stu...