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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Dementia -- Research"”.
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A Study of How Art Therapy May Cause Reduction of Anxiety and Increase in Reminiscing in Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
… for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The purpose of the Alzheimer’s disease and dementia research study was to determine if art therapy would improve reminiscing and decrease anxiety in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Qualitative and quantitative data were …
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Cognition and Motor Function: A Novel Outcome Measure for Studies on Pre-Dementia Syndromes
Advances in dementia research have shifted attention towards earlier stages in the natural history, such as Mild Cognitive Impairment. The current gold standard outcome measure, the Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale, is not optimally responsive to changes in pre-dementia …
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Discovering Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease by Statistical Learning Approaches
… references about significance of features for dementia researchers, a web-based platform AlzExpress was built to provide researchers with granular level of differential expression test and meta-analysis results. A combination of fashionable big data technologies and robust data mining …
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Out and about : a sensory ethnographic study of therapeutic landscape experiences of people living with dementia in the wider community
… a dearth of evidence on how older people with dementia negotiate and experience the wider community. The aim of the present study is therefore to explore experiences of social and spatial engagement in the wider community for people living with dementia in order to advance understandings of how …
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Improving the short-term management of patients with dementia admitted to hospital.
… 25% of older in-patients in acute settings have dementia (Timmons et al., 2015). Patients with dementia are known to have poor health outcomes during acute hospital stays (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2019). They also have negative experiences because of the focus of nursing staff on routines …
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Fall Prevention Strategies for Home-dwelling Older Adults Aged 65 and over with a Diagnosis of Dementia: A Scoping Review
… among older adults, particularly those with dementia, as they are at an increased risk because of cognitive impairment and physical frailty (Lach et al., 2017; Racey et al., 2021). Although fall prevention strategies have been extensively studied in older adults, little is known about how …
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Care needs of people with dementia in perioperative environments from the perspective of healthcare professionals : exploring professional experiences of person-centred dementia care
People living with dementia represent a growing patient population within surgical services, yet their complex care needs are often unmet in the high-pressure perioperative environment. Research on dementia in surgical contexts remains fragmented, with limited guidance for practice, poor …
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Non-Invasive Techniques for the Detection and Diagnosis of Dementia
… are currently fifty million people living with dementia worldwide. An accurate and early diagnosis of dementia is important in order to initiate appropriate treatment programs as soon as possible. Common methods of neuropsychological assessment can be sensitive to external factors which may …
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"That's how we do it...we treat them all the same": an exploration of the experiences of patients, lay carers and health and social care staff of the care received by older people with dementia in acute hospital settings.
… care staff of care received by older people with dementia in the acute hospital setting. In view of the ageing population, an increasing prevalence of dementia and the emerging dignity agenda this is a particularly topical subject. Four elements are included in this thesis: a literature review, a …
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Revealing Mechanisms of Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease by Modelling in Organotypic Hippocampal Slice Cultures
… the world. It is the most common form of dementia and manifests with progressive memory impairment and cognitive decline. While a small proportion of AD cases are inherited, a majority of patients have sporadic disease. Thus, it is a combination of one’s genes, environment and lifestyle …
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Feasibility of a Dietary Intervention Using Coconut Oil on Cognition and Quality of Life in Older Adults: Randomised Controlled Pilot study.
Background: With no effective treatments for dementia, research has addressed the efficacy of multi-dimensional interventions against dementia, mostly based on lifestyle modifications, to reduce the progression of the disease. The positive influence of adopting specific diet and nutrition-related …