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The worldwide costs of dementia in 2019

open access: yesAlzheimer's & Dementia, 2023
Dementia is a leading cause of death and disability globally. Estimating total societal costs demonstrates the wide impact of dementia and its main direct and indirect economic components.
A. Wimo   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Physical activity as a protective factor for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: systematic review, meta-analysis and quality assessment of cohort and case–control studies

open access: yesBritish Journal of Sports Medicine, 2022
Objective Physical activity (PA) is associated with a decreased incidence of dementia, but much of the evidence comes from short follow-ups prone to reverse causation. This meta-analysis investigates the effect of study length on the association.
Paula Iso-Markku   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The inter-relationship between delirium and dementia: the importance of delirium prevention

open access: yesNature Reviews Neurology, 2022
Delirium and dementia are two frequent causes of cognitive impairment among older adults and have a distinct, complex and interconnected relationship.
T. Fong, S. Inouye
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for the early detection of dementia in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

open access: yesCochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2021
BACKGROUND Dementia is a progressive global cognitive impairment syndrome. In 2010, more than 35 million people worldwide were estimated to be living with dementia.
I. Arévalo-Rodriguez   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
Sleep dysregulation is a feature of dementia but it remains unclear whether sleep duration prior to old age is associated with dementia incidence. Using data from 7959 participants of the Whitehall II study, we examined the association between sleep ...
S. Sabia   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What Can Quantitative Gait Analysis Tell Us about Dementia and Its Subtypes? A Structured Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Distinguishing dementia subtypes can be difficult due to similarities in clinical presentation. There is increasing interest in discrete gait characteristics as markers to aid diagnostic algorithms in dementia.
Galna, Brook   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Finding a way: long-term care homes to support dementia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
An ageing demographic has increased the number of people with dementia. Although dementia is commonly associated with memory loss, other early symptoms include difficulty with wayfinding.
Alzheimer's Society   +20 more
core   +1 more source

Investigation of early molecular alterations in tauopathy with generative adversarial networks

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
The recent advances in deep learning-based approaches hold great promise for unravelling biological mechanisms, discovering biomarkers, and predicting gene function.
Hyerin Kim   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting general hospital staff to provide dementia sensitive care: A realist evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0).Background: There are an increasing number of interventions to improve hospital care for ...
Bunn, Frances   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Bilingualism Is Associated with a Delayed Onset of Dementia but Not with a Lower Risk of Developing it: a Systematic Review with Meta-Analyses. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Some studies have linked bilingualism with a later onset of dementia, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Not all studies have observed such relationships, however.
Brini, S.   +9 more
core   +3 more sources

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