ALLMedicine™ Dementia Center

Mar 3rd, 2021 - Patients with dementia often have significant symptom burden and a progressive course of functional deterioration. Specialist palliative care referral may be helpful, but it is unclear who and when patients should be referred. We conducted a syste...

Mar 3rd, 2021 - Despite decades of research on the relation between thyroid diseases and cognition, the nature of this relationship remains elusive. An increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment and thyroid dysfunction has been consistently observed with agein...

Mar 3rd, 2021 - Some older adults cannot meaningfully participate in the testing portion of a neuropsychological evaluation due to significant cognitive impairments. There are limited empirical data on this topic. Thus, the current study sought to provide an oper...

Mar 3rd, 2021 - Meaningful engagement is an important dimension of quality of life and care for persons living with dementia, including the growing number who reside in assisted living communities. This report presents preliminary findings from an ongoing qualita...

Mar 3rd, 2021 - The prevalence of obesity as well as cognitive impairment increases with age. Previous studies showed that obesity is associated with an increased risk of cognitive impairment and dementia. Body composition changes occur as part of the aging proce...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Sex differences in dementia risk are unclear. It is known that women have a greater prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) than men, at least partly because women live longer.1-3 Some, but not all, studies suggest that women have higher incidence of...

Feb 10th, 2021 - Background: Sleep disturbance and deficiency are common among older adults and have been linked with dementia and all-cause mortality. Using nationally representative data, we examine the relationship between sleep disturbance and deficiency and t...

Feb 5th, 2021 - Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia leading to progressive memory loss and cognitive impairment. Considering that pharmacological treatment options for AD are few and not satisfactory, increasing attention is being paid to...

Oct 31st, 2020 - Clinical guidelines, scientific literature, and information for patients.

Oct 26th, 2020 - Multiple neurological complications have been associated with the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. This is a narrative review to gather information on all aspects of COVID-19 in...

Mar 3rd, 2021 - Patients with dementia often have significant symptom burden and a progressive course of functional deterioration. Specialist palliative care referral may be helpful, but it is unclear who and when patients should be referred. We conducted a syste...

Mar 3rd, 2021 - Despite decades of research on the relation between thyroid diseases and cognition, the nature of this relationship remains elusive. An increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment and thyroid dysfunction has been consistently observed with agein...

Mar 3rd, 2021 - Some older adults cannot meaningfully participate in the testing portion of a neuropsychological evaluation due to significant cognitive impairments. There are limited empirical data on this topic. Thus, the current study sought to provide an oper...

Mar 3rd, 2021 - Meaningful engagement is an important dimension of quality of life and care for persons living with dementia, including the growing number who reside in assisted living communities. This report presents preliminary findings from an ongoing qualita...

Mar 3rd, 2021 - The prevalence of obesity as well as cognitive impairment increases with age. Previous studies showed that obesity is associated with an increased risk of cognitive impairment and dementia. Body composition changes occur as part of the aging proce...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Takeaway Hearing aid (HA) use is independently associated with a lower risk of incident dementia in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Slower cognitive decline is seen in users than non-users of HA with MCI. Why this matters The cau...

Mar 1st, 2021 - What could be early metabolic signs of future dementia, as seen by PET, were closely associated with standard cardiovascular (CV) disease risk factors, some modifiable, in a study of middle-aged people in the community. The PET scans showed defici...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Sex differences in dementia risk are unclear. It is known that women have a greater prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) than men, at least partly because women live longer.1-3 Some, but not all, studies suggest that women have higher incidence of...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Abnormal walking patterns may be an early indicator of dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD) and may distinguish it from other neurodegenerative and cognitive disorders, new research suggests. Results of a new study show that a high degree o...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - New research has uncovered five genes linked to Lewy Body dementia, which supports the association between that condition and both Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. The study, led by researchers from the US National Institutes of Health...