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Preventing Alzheimer’s dementia [PDF]

BMJ, 2017
Sommerlad, A, Livingston, G
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Creating excellence in dementia care: A research review for Ireland's national dementia strategy [PDF]

, 2012
Dementia is a progressive condition that largely affects older people, impacting on their memory, language, ability to communicate, mood and personality.
Cahill, Suzanne, O'Shea, Eamon, Pierce, Maria   +2 more
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Comprehensive allostatic load risk index is associated with increased frontal and left parietal white matter hyperintensities in mid-life cognitively healthy adults

Scientific Reports
To date, there is a considerable heterogeneity of methods to score Allostatic Load (AL). Here we propose a comprehensive algorithm (ALCS) that integrates commonly used approaches to generate AL risk categories and assess associations to brain structure ...
Ingrid Buller-Peralta, Sarah Gregory, Audrey Low, Maria-Eleni Dounavi, Katie Bridgeman, Georgios Ntailianis, Brian Lawlor, Lorina Naci, Ivan Koychev, Paresh Malhotra, John T. O’Brien, Craig W. Ritchie, Graciela Muniz-Terrera   +12 more
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Dementia stats down but postcode lottery drives uneven care [PDF]

, 2013
First paragraph: Dementia has been described as a ticking time bomb, with the number of those affected predicted to double in the next two decades. But a new study suggests that the prevalence of people withdementia in the UK has actually fallenover the ...
Andrews, June
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The effect of exercise on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: the EVIDEM-E randomised controlled clinical trial

, 2013
Objective The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a simple dyadic (person with dementia and their main carer) exercise regimen as a therapy for the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
Lee, James, Griffin, Mark, Cerga-Pashoja, Arlinda, Thuné-Boyle, Ingela, Bailey, Alex, Warner, James, Lowery, David, Iliffe, Steve, Bhattacharya, Rahul   +8 more
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The Role of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists in Cognitive Decline and Dementia Prevention: A Systematic Review and Semiquantitative Synthesis

Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour
Dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is a major global health challenge with limited treatment options. Growing evidence suggests that glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), originally developed for type 2 diabetes mellitus ...
Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, Arunima Chaudhuri   +1 more
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Prevention of Dementia Formation in Retired Combat Participants with a History of Traumatic Brain Injuries

European Journal of Mental Health, 2020
Background: A set of measures to prevent the formation of gross organic mental disorders in combat participants having traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important public health task.
Andrey Soloviev, Elena Ichitovkina, Elena Golubeva   +2 more
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Effect of Dementia on the Use of Drugs for Secondary Prevention of Ischemic Heart Disease

Journal of Aging Research, 2014
Background. Dementia and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are frequently comorbid. The presence of dementia may have an effect on how CVD is treated. Objective.
Nicole R. Fowler, Amber E. Barnato, Howard B. Degenholtz, Angela M. Curcio, James T. Becker, Lewis H. Kuller, Oscar L. Lopez   +6 more
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Learning about design for dementia: lessons from a Japan–UK network [PDF]

A multidisciplinary Japan–UK Network identified cross-cultural and cross-national lessons for research aimed at improving the design of homes for people living with dementia.
Mitsuhiro Sado, Copland, Fiona, Ishikawa, Shogo, Dawson, Alison, Fiona Copland, Mio Ito, Lesley Palmer, Akihiro Koreki, Atsushi Omata, Alasdair Rutherford, Grant Gibson, Melanie Lovatt, Ito, Mio, Vikki McCall, Gibson, Grant, Martin Quirke, Rutherford, Alasdair, Phillips, Judith, Judith Phillips, Alison Dawson, McCall, Vikki, Satoko Hotta, Ryoji Noritake, Shogo Ishikawa, Daisuke Kiuchi, Koreki, Akihiro, Palmer, Lesley, Quirke, Martin, Kiuchi, Daisuke, Lovatt, Melanie, Alison Bowes, Hotta, Satoko, Bowes, Alison   +32 more
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How might secondary dementia prevention programs work in practice: a pre-implementation study of the APPLE-Tree program

BMC Geriatrics
Background Over 850,000 people in the UK currently have dementia, and that number is expected to grow rapidly. One approach that may help slow or prevent this growth is personalized dementia prevention.
Rachel M. Morse, Iain Lang, Penny Rapaport, Michaela Poppe, Sarah Morgan-Trimmer, Claudia Cooper   +5 more
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