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BMC Geriatrics, 2020 Background Many people with dementia live in care homes, where staff can struggle to meet their complex needs. Successful practice improvement interventions in these settings require strong managerial support, but little is known about how managers can ...
R. Kelley +7 more
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Computational neurology: Computational modeling approaches in dementia [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Dementia is a collection of symptoms associated with impaired cognition and impedes everyday normal functioning. Dementia, with Alzheimer's disease constituting its most common type, is highly complex in terms of etiology and pathophysiology. A more quantitative or computational attitude towards dementia research, or more generally in neurology, is ...
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Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 2018 Background Processing of degraded speech is a promising model for understanding communication under challenging listening conditions, core auditory deficits and residual capacity for perceptual learning and cerebral plasticity in major dementias. Methods
Chris J. D. Hardy +12 more
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Brain correlates of task-load and dementia elucidation with tensor machine learning using oddball BCI paradigm [PDF]
, 2019 Dementia in the elderly has recently become the most usual cause of cognitive decline. The proliferation of dementia cases in aging societies creates a remarkable economic as well as medical problems in many communities worldwide. A recently published report by The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 47 million people are suffering ...
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Health ExpectationsIntroduction In the United Kingdom, there are a growing number of specialist dementia nurses called Admiral Nurses. Admiral Nurses, supported in their professional development and clinical supervision by the charity Dementia UK, work with families ...
Emma Wolverson +2 more
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White matter tract signatures of impaired social cognition in frontotemporal lobar degeneration
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2015 Impairments of social cognition are often leading features in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and likely to reflect large-scale brain network disintegration. However, the neuroanatomical basis of impaired social cognition in FTLD and the role of
Laura E. Downey +11 more
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Dementia assistive system as a dense network [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 As elderly population increases, portion of dementia patients becomes larger. Thus social cost of caring dementia patients has been a major concern to many nations. This article introduces a dementia assistive system operated by various sensors and devices installed in body area and activity area of patients.
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Interakt---A Multimodal Multisensory Interactive Cognitive Assessment Tool [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Cognitive assistance may be valuable in applications for doctors and therapists that reduce costs and improve quality in healthcare systems. Use cases and scenarios include the assessment of dementia. In this paper, we present our approach to the (semi-)automatic assessment of dementia.
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Working with a robot in hospital and long-term care homes: staff experience
BMC NursingAlthough there is a growing literature on the use of telepresence robots in institutional dementia care settings, limited research focused on the perspectives of frontline staff members who deliver dementia care.
Lily Haopu Ren +13 more
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