Snips from the journals: Interventions for dementia and cognitive decline
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Interventions To Prevent Age-Related Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Clinical Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia
Dementia severely erodes individuals’ functioning and quality of life, creates burden and stress on the entire family, and is a major predictor of institutionalization. Although the age and sex standardized prevalence of dementia and the rates of incident dementia have fallen over the last several decades, 2 the number of U.S. adults over 70 with dementia and mild cognitive impairment is rising...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2579-2008,2012-6883
DOI: 10.4038/sljpsyc.v5i1.7080