BACKGROUND Over the last 20 years, a number of instruments developed for the assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQL) in dementia have been introduced. The aim of this review is to synthesize evidence from published reviews on HRQL measures in dementia and any new literature in order to identify dementia specific HRQL instruments, the domains they measure, and their operationalizatio...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This study sought to compare two well-known and well-used self-report quality of life questionnaires in terms of completion rates, reliability and assessment of quality of life. BACKGROUND People with dementia have a meaningful experience of quality of life and several disease-specific instruments have been designed to capture self-report assessments. DESIGN A quantitati...

Dementia is a huge and growing global problem, with up to 25 million cases worldwide and a new case developing every seven seconds (Ferri et al., 2005). Numbers are set to double in the next 25 years and double again in the next 25, thus showing an exponential rise. Costs to health and social care are enormous, with a recent UK Alzheimer’s Research Trust report estimating that annual costs of d...

Depression and dementia are common in older people and their association is very complex. Major and minor depression occur often in patients with dementia and can be associated with deterioration in cognitive functioning. Many clinicians have difficulty determining whether dementia, depression or both are the underlying disease for their patients' apathy, psychomotor retardation, concentration ...

BACKGROUND Risk factors for cognitive decline in ageing are multifactorial, including medical co-morbidities and familial genetic risk. OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of medical co-morbidity and family history of dementia on cognitive performance in older outpatients of family practitioners. METHODS Analysis of 535 outpatients from 11 practices aged 65 and older, without a diagnosis of dem...

OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a brief screening measure for use in research, healthcare, and community settings to systematically assess well-being and identify needed areas of support for caregivers of patients with dementia. DESIGN: This study used data from Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer’s Caregiver Health (REACH II), a multisite randomized clinical trial of a behavioral interventio...

Senile dementia is a syndrome in the elderly involving deficits in memory and cognition. There has been a long history of research and medical practice in dementia in China, during which the ancient Chinese people have formed a whole theory and accumulated abundant experience in the treatment of dementia. During recent decades, with new theories and technologies being digested and integrated, p...

OBJECTIVES To develop and validate a brief screening measure for use in research, healthcare, and community settings to systematically assess well-being and identify needed areas of support for caregivers of patients with dementia. DESIGN This study used data from Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH II), a multisite randomized clinical trial of a behavioral interventio...