BACKGROUND Dementia is a worldwide health concern of epidemic proportions. Research in the field of subjective experience of dementia suffers from a lack of diversity of their participants including immigrants. Different portraits of life with dementia could help us understand how people with dementia conceptualise their experiences of dementia and how they live. Our study aimed to explore the ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Alzheimer's dementia is thought to be a primary degenerative dementia, whereas vascular dementia of the Binswanger type is an entity of vascular dementia. We evaluated the cerebrovascular responsiveness to hypercapnia to clarify the differences in the cerebral hemodynamics between two groups of patients. The subjects were eight younger control subjects, five age-matched c...

OBJECTIVE To examine the contribution of cerebrovascular disease to dementia. METHODS We used the records-linkage system of the Rochester Epidemiology Project to ascertain incident cases of dementia in Rochester, Minn, for 1985 through 1989. We defined dementia using the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. To define dementia types, we reviewe...

for which we are very grateful. All the authors and investigators of dementia studies who provided us more specific data from their work. foreword Today, over 46 million people live with dementia worldwide, more than the population of Spain. This number is estimated to increase to 131.5 million by 2050. Dementia also has a huge economic impact. Today, the total estimated worldwide cost of demen...

Dementia is increasingly recognized as a major source of disease burden in the United States, yet little research has evaluated the lifecycle implications of dementia. To address this research gap, this article uses the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS) to provide the first nationally representative, longitudinal estimates of the probability that a dementia-free person will develop ...

This study evaluated the consumption of psychotropic medications by caregivers of elderly patients with or without dementia. This was a cross-sectional study conducted at all geriatric units in Brasília, Brazil, during a two-month period. Structured interviews were performed with 311 caregivers of people with or without dementia and they completed questionnaires. Among the caregivers, 196 (63%)...

Dementia is increasingly recognized as a major source of disease burden in the United States, on par with heart disease and cancer. Little research has evaluated the lifecycle implications of dementia. To address this research gap, this article uses the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS) to provide the first nationally representative, longitudinal estimates of the probability that a ...

Purpose: This paper aimed to clarify the meaning of personhood communication with persons dementia, by identifying its attributes.Methods: Walker and Avant’s concept analysis method was employed. A literature review performed using salient medical health databases such as PubMed, Embase, CINAHL between 1988 June 2020. The employed keywords “personhood”, “communication”, “dementia”.Results: Pers...

V ascular dementia is the second most common cause of dementia 1 and is increasing in prevalence in developing countries. 2 Vascular dementia usually occurs in association with vascular risk factors or after transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke 3 and commonly manifests with a decline in cognitive function, apathy, and depression, and can eventually result in death. 1,4 Blood pressure (BP),...

OBJECTIVES The causes of death in dementia are not established, particularly in rarer dementias. The aim of this study is to calculate risk of death from specific causes for a broader spectrum of dementia diagnoses. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Swedish Dementia Registry (SveDem), 2007-2012. PARTICIPANTS Individuals with incident dementia registered in SveDem (N = 28,609); median follow-up...