BACKGROUND Current literature does not identify the significance of underlying cognitive impairment and delirium in older adults during and 30 days following acute care hospitalization. OBJECTIVE Describe the incidence, risk factors, and outcomes associated with incident delirium superimposed on dementia. DESIGN A 24-month prospective cohort study. SETTING Community hospital. PATIENTS A...

Acknowledgements Chapter 1 photo – Adela Hernandez, Federacion Mexicana de Alzheimer (FedMA) Chapter 2, 3, 4 photos – bupa Chapter 6 photo – Hong Kong Alzheimer's disease Association Cover and chapter 5 photos – iStock design-david o'Connor-2 Leg length and head circumference, early-life events Chapter 3 dr Matthew prina 1,2 richard pender 2 dr Cleusa Ferri 3 dr diego r. Mazzotti 3 prof emilian...

Cognitive reserve (CR) theory posits that the clinical presentation of individuals with the same brain disease varies based upon premorbid variables (e.g., education, occupation, reading ability). Anosognosia (decreased insight regarding one's deficits) is common in dementia and has implications for safety, treatment, and caregiver burden. The current study examined the role of CR in anosognosi...

There is evidence that vulnerability to proactive semantic interference may be an early manifestation of early Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. At present, there is a paucity of data regarding the extent to which such deficits relate to the progression of cognitive deficits and to clinically significant endpoints such as dementia. In this study, we followed 76 older ad...

BACKGROUND Clinical experience suggests that the work characteristics of staff in residential care may influence the well-being of residents with dementia. However, few studies have explored those anecdotal experiences. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between work characteristics of nursing staff and prevalence of behavioral symptoms among people with dementia in residenti...

Future Grid Networks should be able to provide Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to their users. In this work we examine the way Grid resources should be configured so as to provide deterministic delay guarantees to Guaranteed Service (GS) users and fairness to Best Effort (BE) users. The resources are partitioned in groups that serve GS users only, or BE users only, or both types of users wi...

Background In Taiwan, more than 90% of persons with dementia who live at home are cared for by family caregivers. According to previous researches, caregivers have a higher level burden almost all other diseases old age. addition, due the different courses in each stage, coupled complexity its problems, stages care demands. Therefore, this study aimed explore management needs caring stages. Met...