OBJECTIVES To identify rates of potentially preventable complications for dementia patients compared with non-dementia patients. DESIGN Retrospective cohort design using hospital discharge data for dementia patients, case matched on sex, age, comorbidity and surgical status on a 1 : 4 ratio to non-dementia patients. SETTING Public hospital discharge data from the state of New South Wales, A...

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 ...

BACKGROUND People with dementia are among the most frequent service users in the acute hospital. Despite this, the acute hospital is not organized in a manner that best addresses their needs. METHODS We examined acute dementia care over a 3-year period from 2010 to 2012 in a 600-bed university hospital, to clarify the service activity and costs attributable to acute dementia care. RESULTS N...

Utility values to estimate quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) for use in cost-utility analyses are usually elicited from members of the general population. Public attitudes and understanding of dementia in particular may mean that values elicited from the general population may differ from patients and carers for dementia health states. This study examines how the population impacts utility va...

BACKGROUND Dementia has been associated with an increased risk of hip fracture. However, little research has been conducted on the impact of dementia on wrist or vertebral fracture development. The aim of this study was to investigate whether dementia is a risk factor for different types of fracture in Taiwan. METHODS The study sample was drawn from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research...

BACKGROUND Dementia is one of the main challenges to our health and social care. This study compares the number and timing of transitions between care settings in the last 2 years of life among older people with and without dementia. METHODS Data were derived from Finnish national registers, and include all those who died in 2002 and 2003 at the age of 70 or older (n = 70,366). Negative binom...

Abstract This presentation describes measurement tools and techniques for the pilot. Anonymous pre- post-surveys were based on Brief Tool Dementia-Friendly Education Training Sessions, modified ODRC population. The is a 7-item scale measuring impact of dementia education sessions knowledge, attitudes/perceptions, interacting with people living dementia. Based feedback, we added an item recogniz...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to synthesize and integrate the results qualitative studies on nurses' experience caring for people with dementia.Methods: We followed Noblit Hare’s seven step meta-ethnography studies. Six databases (PubMed, Web Science, EMBASE, RISS, National Assembly Library, KCI) were used search literatures that explored nurses’ dementia. Based criteria, nine included...

Vascular dementia accounts for approximately 15-20% of all dementias. In addition, a significant subset of people with Alzheimer's disease have concurrent cerebrovascular disease. Vascular dementia is caused by different cerebrovascular morphological abnormalities including large artery territory infarction (multi-infarct vascular dementia) and sub-cortical ischaemic vascular dementia. Despite ...

OBJECTIVES To provide risk estimates of dementia and Alzheimer disease as a function of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotypes and to assess the proportion of dementia that is attributable to the APOE genotypes. DESIGN Case-control study nested in a population-based cohort study with a mean (SD) follow-up of 2.1 (0.9) years. SETTING General population in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. PARTICI...