Utilising semantic technologies for decision support in dementia care [PDF]
, 2013 The main objective of this work is to discuss our experience in utilising semantic technologies for building decision support in Dementia care systems that are based on the non-intrusive on the non-intrusive monitoring of the patient’s behaviour.
Rmaswamy, S +7 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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Dopamine Transporter Imaging for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration With Motor Neuron Disease
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 IntroductionFrontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a clinical syndrome with pathological heterogeneity, including Pick’s disease and trans-activating response region (TAR) DNA-binding protein with a molecular mass of 43 kDa (TDP-43) proteinopathy ...
Ryota Kobayashi +5 more
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Semantic Memory Deficits in Low-educated Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2006 Although a deficit of semantic memory is evident in the dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT), the underlying neuropsychologic mechanism remains controversial.
Chi-Cheng Yang +11 more
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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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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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Be concrete to be comprehended:consistent imageability effects in semantic dementia for nouns, verbs, synonyms and associates [PDF]
, 2013 There are two contrasting views on the nature of comprehension impairment in semantic dementia: (a) that it stems from degradation of a pan-modal "hub" that represents core conceptual knowledge or (b) that it results from degradation of modality-specific
Hoffman, Paul; id_orcid +5 more
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Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 2020 Objective To assess progression of semantic loss in early stages of cognitive decline using semantic and letter fluency performance, and its relation with Alzheimer's disease (AD)‐specific neurodegeneration using longitudinal multimodal neuroimaging ...
Jet M. J. Vonk +18 more
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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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