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Heightened Prevalence of Common Hospital-Treated Infections Preceding Dementia Diagnosis with Accelerated Dementia Onset after Influenza
BackgroundSince the beginning of Alzheimer’s disease research, the hypothesis that infections are to some extent associated with neurodegenerative...
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Dementia Companion Guide for Additional Caregivers in Nursing Care
The successful book for additional caregivers now in an updated 4th edition. Caregivers take on an important task in the care and accompaniment of...
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Challenging Assumptions Around Dementia User-led Research and Untold Stories
This open access book explores the expectations surrounding dementia, what it ‘looks like’ and how people have been treated by others. It aims to...
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How Modifiable Are Modifiable Dementia Risk Factors? A Framework for Considering the Modifiability of Dementia Risk Factors
Many risk factors for dementia, identified from observational studies, are potentially modifiable. This raises the possibility that targeting key...
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Daily time management in dementia: qualitative interviews with persons with dementia and their significant others
BackgroundPersons with dementia encounter time-related problems and significant others often need to provide support in daily time management and use...
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The prevalence and co-existence of geriatric syndromes in older patients with dementia compared to those without dementia
BackgroundThis study aims to compare frequency and coexistence of geriatric syndromes in older patients with dementia to those without dementia.
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Assessing Culturally Tailored Dementia Interventions to Support Informal Caregivers of People Living with Dementia (PLWD): A Sco** Review
The review aimed to identify and describe dementia care interventions and programs that are culturally tailored to support racial and ethnic minority...
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Post-diagnostic support for persons with young-onset dementia – a retrospective analysis based on data from the Swedish dementia registry SveDem
BackgroundApproximately 3.9 million persons worldwide have young-onset dementia. Symptoms related to young-onset dementia present distinct challenges...
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Alcohol use, dementia risk, and sex: a systematic review and assessment of alcohol-attributable dementia cases in Europe
BackgroundHigh-risk alcohol use is an established modifiable risk factor for dementia. However, prior reviews have not addressed sex differences in...
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The influence of socio-cognitive mindfulness, moral sensitivity and dementia communication behaviors on dementia nursing performance of nurses in long-term care hospitals: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundBy incorporating socio-cognitive mindfulness which has been under-examined in the nursing field, this study investigated the relationships...
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High Intake of Dietary Cholesterol Decreases the Risk of All-Cause Dementia and AD Dementia: A Results from Framingham Offspring Cohort
BackgroundDietary cholesterol has been confirmed to be associated with high risks of diabetes, hypertension, and stroke, but whether it is...
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Morphological characteristics differentiate dementia with Lewy bodies from Parkinson disease with and without dementia
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson disease (PD) with and without dementia are entities of a spectrum of Lewy body diseases. About 26.3% of...
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Contextualizing the results of an integrative review on the characteristics of dementia-friendly hospitals: a workshop with professional dementia experts
BackgroundTo become a dementia-friendly hospital (DFH) is increasingly being discussed in health care practice, research, politics and society. In...
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Psychometric properties of the Caregiver’s inventory neuropsychological diagnosis dementia (CINDD) in mild cognitive impairment and dementia
ObjectivesThe Caregiver’s Inventory Neuropsychological Diagnosis Dementia (CINDD) is an easy tool designed to quantify cognitive, behavioural and...
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Are Population-Level Approaches to Dementia Risk Reduction Under-Researched? A Rapid Review of the Dementia Prevention Literature
Dementia is forecast to become increasingly prevalent, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, and is associated with high human and...
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Risk of Dementia in Korean Vietnam War Veterans
BackgroundThe number of cases of all types of dementia is increasing, and a significant increase in prevalence has been noted among veterans....
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Association of pro-inflammatory diet with increased risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer's dementia: a prospective study of 166,377 UK Biobank participants
BackgroundIncreasing evidence suggests an association between pro-inflammatory diets and cognitive function. However, only a few studies based on...
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Conversation coaching in dementia: a feasibility study
PurposeConversation abilities of people with dementia are impacted by cognitive-communication deficits. Communication interventions can improve...
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What requirements do primary care physicians have with regard to dementia diagnostics and dementia care? – a survey study among general practitioners in Germany 2022/2023
BackgroundGeneral practice offers good conditions to detect and provide care for dementia-related diseases. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of...
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Exploring the experiences of people living with dementia in Dementia Friendly Communities (DFCs) in Northern Ireland: a realist evaluation protocol
BackgroundThe aim of this study is to 1) explore the experiences of people living with dementia interacting with DFCs and 2) identify factors that...
