ALLMedicine™ Dementia Center

May 15th, 2022 - Because of the difficulties in accessing medical care, the likelihood of receiving breast cancer screening may be low for women with disabilities. We aimed to investigate differences in the utilization of breast cancer screening among women with a...

May 15th, 2022 - Dementia is associated with cognitive decline. Becoming an informal caregiver raises questions, requiring information and support from health professionals to guide home care. A multicenter, longitudinal study was carried out to validate the Spani...

May 15th, 2022 - This quantitative study (n = 370) compares the pandemic-related experiences of the family carers of older people living with dementia during the first wave of the pandemic, in two countries with different care regimes: Italy (Mediterranean) and Hu...

May 15th, 2022 - An early, extensive, accurate, and cost-effective clinical diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders will have advantages for older people and their families, but also for the health and care systems sustainability and performance. BRAINCODE is a tech...

May 15th, 2022 - Dementia is a leading cause of disability and dependency in older people worldwide. As the number of people affected increases, so does the need for innovative care models. Dementia care management (DCM) is an empirically validated approach for im...

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 13th, 2022 - Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPC) is an autosomal recessive, lysosomal storage disorder characterized by accumulation of cholesterol and gangliosides. NPC is a rare (estimated prevalence of 1:120,000-150,000) neurodegenerative disorder with a wide...

May 13th, 2022 - Objective: While medications can temporarily alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson s disease (PD), they do not influence the degenerative process. Progressive loss of nigral dopaminergic (DA) neurons (the pathological hallmark of PD) results in prog...

May 13th, 2022 - Objective The objective of this study is to ascertain individuals with a clinical diagnosis of a movement disorder or dementia, their affected and unaffected family members, and unrelated, healthy individuals (to provide control samples); to chara...

May 13th, 2022 - Objective: Alzheimer s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that impairs memory and other cognitive abilities, as well as behavior and the ability to function independently. It is the most common cause of dementia among older pe...

May 13th, 2022 - The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of bepranemab versus (vs) placebo on the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) up to Week 80 in study participants with prodromal or mild Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

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...

May 12th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published on medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways In the months after infection with COVID-19 (post-COVID condition), adults who previously self-isolated at home with COV...

May 11th, 2022 - Caregiving for a person with dementia in the community can be extremely difficult work. Much of this work falls on unpaid or informal caregivers.

May 10th, 2022 - Individuals diagnosed with young-onset dementia (YOD) have an alarmingly high risk of serious injury because of motor vehicle accidents — both as pedestrians and drivers. Results from a longitudinal, registry-based cohort study showed that compare...

May 6th, 2022 - Worldwide, more than 55 million individuals are currently living with dementia, with Alzheimer's disease accounting for as much as 70% of cases. As many as 15 million US citizens were living with Alzheimer's disease in 2020, a number expected to t...