Dementia is a clinical syndrome of widespread progressive deterioration of cognitive abilities and normal daily functioning. These cognitive and behavioral impairments pose considerable challenges to individuals with dementia, along with their family members and caregivers. Four primary dementia classifications have been defined according to clinical and research criteria: 1) Alzheimer's diseas...

BACKGROUND : The U.K. Department of Health recently proposed an international dementia strategy to enhance the quality of dementia care in acute hospital care settings. To implement such a strategy, it is necessary to first assess whether nurses have the knowledge and person-centered approach essential to enhancing hospital-based dementia care quality. PURPOSE : The purpose of this study was ...

OBJECTIVE The authors report findings from a study of 5,092 community residents who constituted 90% of the elderly resident population of Cache County, Utah. METHOD The 5,092 participants, who were 65 years old or older, were screened for dementia. Based on the results of this screen, 1,002 participants (329 with dementia and 673 without dementia) underwent comprehensive neuropsychiatric exam...

diabetes mellitus (dm) is one of the most important metabolic disease causes in many side effects. the decrease of mental abilities and even some form of dementia followed prolonged diabetes has been reported. there are evidences that show hippocampus might be the site of neural involvement in patients with dementia followed diabetes. as hippocampus received main serotonergic efferents from bra...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Orthostatic hypotension (OH) and QTc prolongation have potentially important prognostic and therapeutic consequences but have rarely been studied in patients with mild dementia. METHODS Patients with mild dementia were diagnosed according to consensus criteria after comprehensive standardized assessment. OH and QTc were assessed using standardized criteria. RESULTS OH was si...

The word dementia describes a set of symptoms that could contain recollection defeat and difficulties alongside thinking, problem-solving or language. Dementia is provoked after the mind is broken by illnesses, such as Alzheimer's illness or a sequence of strokes. There are hundreds of requests obtainable to aid those recognized alongside dementia. But there are no apps or multimedia that can i...

The word dementia describes a set of symptoms that could contain recollection defeat and difficulties alongside thinking, problem-solving or language. Dementia is provoked after the mind is broken by illnesses, such as Alzheimer's illness or a sequence of strokes. There are hundreds of requests obtainable to aid those recognized alongside dementia. But there are no apps or multimedia that can i...

The word dementia describes a set of symptoms that could contain recollection defeat and difficulties alongside thinking, problem-solving or language. Dementia is provoked after the mind is broken by illnesses, such as Alzheimer's illness or a sequence of strokes. There are hundreds of requests obtainable to aid those recognized alongside dementia. But there are no apps or multimedia that can i...

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...

BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH OBJECTIVE An increasing body of evidence shows that individuals diagnosed with congestive heart failure (CHF) are at a higher risk for dementia. However, the prevalence rate of dementia among persons with CHF in very old individuals has not been previously reported, and little is known about the comorbidities that place old persons with CHF at a higher risk for dementia....