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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"early stage dementia"”.
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Hope and stigma in early stage dementia
… support amongst family caregivers of people with dementia. Numerous studies have suggested stigma is associated with negative outcomes in various mental and physical health difficulties. Older people with dementia and their family caregivers could be especially vulnerable to experiencing stigma …
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Positive experiences in older people with early stage dementia
… review entitled ‘Living Positively with Dementia’. The notion that people living with dementia can have positive experiences in spite of - or even because of - their illness remains widely disputed. In light of this controversy and the potential conceptual and clinical importance of …
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Describing Cognitive Change in Normal Aging and Early-stage Dementia
… individuals and individuals diagnosed with dementia. Study 1 involved the development of a computer scoring program which was shown to produce more accurate and time efficient scoring. Study 2 compared clustering and switching variables across the healthy adult age span. The older age group …
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Urban Trees, Woodlands and Forests as Places of Mental Well-being for People with Early-Stage Dementia
The number of people with dementia and people who care for a person with dementia is on the increase. The cost of dementia care is also high and predicted to rise due to this increasing prevalence and decreased availability of family carers. Currently in the UK dementia care costs more than stroke, …
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Involving People With Early-stage Dementia In Qualitative Research About Their Lifeworld Perspectives: Development Of A Participatory Research Model
… about the lifeworld perspectives of people with early-stage dementia. Twelve participants with early-stage dementia were recruited from a compensatory adult school VUK (Voksenskolen for Undervisning og Kommunikation) in Denmark. They were trained in research skills to enable them to conduct a …
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Early Bird Caregiver Education: A program to support caregivers of individuals living with early stage dementia or memory loss or other cognitive impairments
<p>The number of individuals living with dementia continues to rise every year, with the need for caregiver education increasing as a result. Occupational therapists (OTs) have the skills and training needed to educate caregivers on how to care for not only themselves, but their loved one as well. …
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CARE RECIPIENT AND FAMILY CAREGIVER PERCEPTIONS OF EVERYDAY CARE IN EARLY-STAGE DEMENTIA: THE EFFECT OF INCONGRUENCE ON QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF DYADIC RELATIONSHIP STRAIN
… of life (QOL) of care recipients (CRs) with early-stage dementia and their primary family caregivers (CGs), particularly the CRs’ and CGs’ incongruent perceptions, and the CRs’ and CGs’ perceptions of strain in their relationship. The study assessed incongruence between CG and CR perceptions …
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Adult day services: experiences of occupational participation by people with early dementia and their carers
… for occupational participation by adults with dementia impact their quality of life and wellbeing. It also affects the health and wellbeing of carers with whom they live. Adult day services were identified as possibly providing opportunities for meaningful activity engagement. However, there is …
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Middleware for assisted living homes (MiddAALware)
… targeted at individuals, such as those with early-stage dementia. The development of personalised and adaptive AAL systems necessitates middleware that is both flexible and lightweight, enabling deployment in environments with limited resources. This MRes project investigates a lightweight …
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The Effects of an Experiential Learning and Mentorship Program Pairing Medical Students and Persons with Cognitive Impairment: A Qualitative Content Analysis
… a tremendous rise in the number of people with dementia. In the future, as now, physicians and other health care professionals will likely provide the majority of health care for older people and those with dementia. The non-geriatric trained workforce must have the attitudes, knowledge and …
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The Use Of The Cognitive Status Examination In Detecting Cognitive Impairment In Elderly People
Dementia is a growing social problem in Australia because as the population ages, the incidence of dementia increases. While the prevalence rates are only about I% at age 65, they double every five years until by 85 years of age the rate is over 24%. It is expected that by the year 2030, the number …
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Artificial Emotional Intelligence in Socially Assistive Robots
… quality of life of patients with depression and dementia. Nevertheless, developing robots with AEI that understand users’ emotions and can reply to them naturally and effectively is in early infancy, and much more research needs to be carried out in this field.</p> <p>This dissertation presents …
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Sensory Processing Sensitivity: exploring associations with cognition and clinical populations
… groups: mild cognitive impairment (n = 17), early stage dementia (n = 16) and cognitively-healthy individuals (n = 23). Global cognition (MMSE scores) and executive functioning (verbal fluency and Trail Making Test scores) served as dependent variables. Analyses found no evidence of …