Facilitating independence: The benefits of a post-diagnostic support project for people with dementia. [PDF]
, 2014 Providing support in the form of information, advice and access to services or social events is promoted as beneficial for people newly diagnosed with dementia and their families. This paper reports on key findings from an evaluation of a post-diagnostic
Innes, Anthea, Kelly, Fiona
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Improving care home design for people with dementia [PDF]
, 2010 With more people with dementia living in care homes in the UK than ever before, there is growing recognition that the design of such internal and external spaces should meet dementia friendly principles.
Innes, Anthea +6 more
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Abusive Interactions: Research in Locked Wards for People with dementia [PDF]
, 2010 This paper reports on a study in which unique access to 3 locked psycho-geriatric wards of a hospital allowed ethnographic exploration into everyday social worlds of fourteen people with dementia.
Kelly, Fiona
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Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 2018 Background The study investigated whether donepezil exerts symptomatic benefit in patients with posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), an atypical variant of Alzheimer’s disease.
Basil H. Ridha +10 more
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Aducanumab: a new phase in therapeutic development for Alzheimer’s disease?
EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2021 On 7 June, the FDA approved aducanumab, the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in almost 20 years—and notably, the first drug with a putative disease‐modifying mechanism for the treatment of this devastating disorder, namely the removal of β‐amyloid (
Giovanna Lalli +3 more
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Supporting User Participation in Local Policy Development: The Fife Dementia Strategy [PDF]
, 2012 This article reviews the consultation process during the development of a local dementia strategy. The processes of involvement by the range of stakeholders involved and how their different views shaped the strategy are considered.
Bradley, Brittany Ellis +2 more
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Investigation of early molecular alterations in tauopathy with generative adversarial networks
Scientific 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
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The impact of location on satisfaction with dementia services amongst people with dementia and their informal carers: a comparative evaluation of a community-based and a clinic-based memory service [PDF]
, 2007 Background: The development of effective medication for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease led to an expansion in the use of memory clinics ther clinic-based services for the delivery and monitoring of the drugs.
Gibson, Grant +3 more
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Thalamic white matter macrostructure and subnuclei volumes in Parkinson’s disease depression
npj Parkinson's Disease, 2022 Depression is a common non-motor feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD) which confers significant morbidity and is challenging to treat. The thalamus is a key component in the basal ganglia-thalamocortical network critical to the pathogenesis of PD and ...
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BMC Medical Education, 2019 Background With increasing numbers of people in the UK living with dementia, the provision of good quality person-centred care that meets the often complex needs of this population is required.
Cara Sass +4 more
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