BACKGROUND Primary data about rates of formal diagnosis of dementia in the German primary care sector are widely lacking. OBJECTIVES Main objectives are to analyze the rate of syndrome diagnosis in primary care patients who screened positive for dementia, the distribution of differential diagnoses, and factors associated with undiagnosed dementia. METHODS DelpHi-MV (Dementia: life- and pers...

OBJECTIVE To assess the burden of mortality attributable to Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia in the United States. METHODS Data came from 2,566 persons aged 65 years and older (mean 78.1 years) without dementia at baseline from 2 cohort studies of aging with identical annual diagnostic assessments of dementia. Because both studies require organ donation, ascertainment of mortality was complete...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have an increased risk of dementia. The identification of predictors of conversion to dementia is therefore important. The aim of our study was to test the hypothesis that subcortical hyperintensities (SH) are associated with an increased rate of conversion to dementia in MCI patients. METHODS This was an observational study...

The aim of this study was to compare the frequency of dementia diagnoses from two dementia registries in Europe. Patients registered between 2007 and 2013 in the Swedish Dementia Registry (SveDem; Sweden) and in the Registry of Dementias of Girona (ReDeGi; North-East of Spain) were selected. We compared sociodemographic data, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores, dementia subtype, and me...

BACKGROUND Health professionals have varying levels of knowledge about, and interest in, providing dementia services. This article compares patient experiences in dealing with dementia with the perceived role of health care providers in providing dementia care. METHOD Qualitative data from interviews of patients with dementia and their carers was compared with quantitative data from health pr...

Background Diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for dementia, especially for vascular dementia (VaD), but there is no consensus on diabetes as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other causes of dementia. Objective To explore the association between diabetes and the neuropathological etiology of dementia in a large autopsy study. Methods Data were collected from the participants of...

Aim To estimate the associations between risk factors and cognitive decline (CD)/dementia, sex differences in these individuals with type 2 diabetes, while accounting for competing of death. Materials Methods The Action Diabetes Vascular Disease: Preterax Diamicron Modified Release Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial 11,140 diabetes was used to odds CD/dementia using multinomial logistic regr...

The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that new and varied views of dementia surface when the concept of intersectionality is applied to dementia research; and that these perspectives pose challenges to our assumptions about what it is like to have dementia. Grounded theory research from a feminist and antioppression perspective was undertaken to explore the question of the relationships betw...

BACKGROUND Google Trends has demonstrated the capability to both monitor and predict epidemic outbreaks. The connection between Internet searches for dementia information and dementia incidence and dementia-related outpatient visits remains unknown. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine whether Google Trends could provide insight into trends in dementia incidence and related outpatient visi...

This project aimed to measure general practitioner (GP), practice nurse and patient health literacy about memory problems, dementia and its risk factors. Data were collected from general practices across Australia and a smaller sample in England. Questionnaires explored sources and adequacy of dementia knowledge and a randomised controlled trial tested the intervention of a dementia risk reduct...