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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is the incidence of dementia declining? [PDF]

Action on preventative health could lower the risk of dementia for future generations, argues this report. Executive summary The world-wide projections of the prevalence of dementia in the coming decades have been a source of great concern to health ...
Perminder S. Sachdev
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Impact of a police safeguarding program on reducing dementia-related missing incidents in the United Kingdom. [PDF]

Innov Aging
Morrissey S, King S, Au-Yeung B, Hornberger M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson, Karen R. Fisher, Julian Laurens, Alinka Fisher, Sabrina Forte, Katrina Reschke, Rosemary Kayess   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia Have Distinct Prediagnostic Blood Biochemical Profiles

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Identifying modifiable factors influencing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) risk is important for prevention. Blood biomarkers, particularly cholesterol, have been associated with neurodegenerative risk, but findings in ALS are inconsistent, and data on FTD are limited.
Christos V. Chalitsios, Jiali Gao, Carol A.C. Coupland, Julia Hippisley Cox, Martin R. Turner, Alexander G. Thompson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Finding Solutions to Addressing Inequalities in Dementia Diagnosis and Care: Recommendations From a Country-Wide Consultation. [PDF]

Int J Geriatr Psychiatry
Giebel C, Poole M, Talbot C, Chadborn N, Brookes N, Samsi K, Clarkson P, Cannon J, Gabbay M, Hanna K, Komuravelli A, Rozansky D, Tetlow H, Walpert M, Whittington R, Williams E, Robinson L.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Serum p‐tau217 Is a Prognostic Indicator of Cognitive Impairment in Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Assess the performance of serum phosphorylated tau 217 (p‐tau217) and neurofilament light chain (NfL) in predicting risk of cognitive impairment or phenoconversion to dementia in individuals with iRBD. Methods We measured serum p‐tau217 and NfL levels by electrochemiluminescence across 4 polysomnographically confirmed iRBD cohorts (n = 300 ...
Shijun Yan, Anis Sahoo, Tanja Zerenner, Kenneth Marek, Michael Sommerauer, Wolfgang Oertel, Michele T. Hu, George K. Tofaris   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association Between Gout and the Risk of Dementia: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies and Biological Mechanisms. [PDF]

Int J Rheum Dis
Wang YC, Huang AP, Huang CW, Islam MM, Kung WM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Overcoming Brain Healthism: Providing Support for Healthy Lifestyles

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Timothy Daly
wiley   +1 more source

Electronic Health Records to Test Multimorbidity Influences to Plasma Biomarker Interpretation for Alzheimer's Disease

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology are frequently tested in specialized research settings, which limits the generalizability of findings. Using electronic health records and banked plasma, we evaluated plasma biomarkers—phosphorylated tau 217 (p‐tau217), β‐amyloid 1–42/1–40 (Aβ42/Aβ40) and p‐tau217/Aβ42—in a real‐world ...
Katheryn A.Q. Cousins, Rory Boyle, Colleen Morse, Anurag Verma, Christopher A. Brown, Kyra S. O'Brien, Marina Serper, Nadia Dehghani, Penn Medicine BioBank, Corey T. McMillan, Edward B. Lee, Leslie M. Shaw, David A. Wolk   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source