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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021 Background Data sparsity is a major limitation to estimating national and global dementia burden. Surveys with full diagnostic evaluations of dementia prevalence are prohibitively resource-intensive in many settings.
GBD 2019 Dementia Collaborators
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Biology, 2023 Global cerebral ischemia can elicit rapid innate neuroprotective mechanisms that protect against delayed neuronal death. Brain-derived 17β-estradiol (BDE2), an endogenous neuroprotectant, is synthesized from testosterone by the enzyme aromatase (Aro) and
Jing Xu +7 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2021 Background Hearing and vision loss in older people has been proven to affect physical and mental health and increase the speed of cognitive decline. Studies have demonstrated that certain practices and improved staff knowledge increase the effective care
Wendy Andrusjak +2 more
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Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 2020 Background There is increasing interest in improving understanding of the timing and nature of early neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and developing methods to measure this in vivo.
Philip S. J. Weston +12 more
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Investigating the lived experience of LGBT+ people with dementia and their care partners: a scoping review [PDF]
, 2022 Dementia, a global health priority, poses a disproportionately high risk to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans plus (LGBT+)/gender and sexuality diverse people.
Ward, Richard +6 more
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Nursing Standard, 2016 'The dementia case-finding tool can be used by care workers to identify care home residents who may have dementia. Used before a clinician's visit, it means their time is more focused'.
Ljubenkov, Peter A, Geschwind, Michael D
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Unmanaged cardiometabolic health, low physical and cognitive activity, poor diet, obesity, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption are modifiable health risk factors for dementia and public health approaches to dementia prevention have been ...
Larissa Bartlett +9 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Background Dementia Care Mapping™ (DCM) is a widely used, staff-led, psychosocial intervention to support the implementation of person-centred care. Efficacy evaluations in care homes have produced mixed outcomes, with implementation problems identified.
Alys Wyn Griffiths +4 more
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Recognising and supporting self in dementia: a new way to facilitate a person-centred approach to dementia care [PDF]
, 2010 This paper reports findings from a three-year study which integrated Kitwood’s (1997) person-centred and Sabat’s (2001) selfhood approaches in the design, fieldwork and analysis of a multi-method observational study that explored the social worlds of 14 ...
Kelly, Fiona
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Care home design for people with dementia: What do people with dementia and their family carers value? [PDF]
, 2011 Objectives: To report on the views of people with dementia who live in care homes and their family carers on aspects of design that are important to them, and discuss these in relation to developing physical care environments that respond to the wishes ...
Innes, Anthea +6 more
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