Prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms of people with dementia in long-term care units: A secondary analysisAbstract:Background: In a progress of dementia, most people develop neuropsychiatric symptoms. However, there is ...
Bedside-teaching on dementia and delirium: Development, implementation, and evaluation in an acute care hospitalAbstract:Background: Demographic change and the accompanying increase in people with dementia and delirium in ...
Abstract: Attitudes toward people with dementia influence how these patients are treated. Knowledge of intercultural differences in attitudes enables specific concepts of care. We validated the Dementia Attitudes Scale (DAS) for Mandarin Chinese to ...
Abstract: Status-oriented psychological tests have demonstrated their usefulness in diagnosing dementia in clinical groups of patients. For the early recognition of dementia the determination of cognitive performance status only is not sufficient. These ...
Summary: Seventy two family members caring for their demented patients were interviewed on their burden and needs. Carer's anxiety and depression as well as subjective burden were more frequent in the later stages of dementia and the more intensive the ...
Summary: Cognitive impairment classifying for dementia syndrome is occasionally detected in patients suffering from old-age depression. When depression improves, cognitive function also may reverse to normal, but these patients are at greater risk for ...
Summary: The aim of this study was to examine the ability of the computerized Adaptive Figure Series Learning Test (ADAFI) to differentiate among old subjects at risk for dementia and old healthy controls. Several studies on the subject of measuring the ...
Summary: Memory problems are assessed clinically by letting the patient repeat three words and asking to remember them a few minutes later. Psychometrically superior methods for bedside testing are not available. The ten-word list developed for clinical ...
Summary: Advance patient directives are various forms of anticipatory medical directives made by competent individuals for the eventuality of future incompetence. They are therefore appropriate instruments for competent patients in the early stage of ...
Summary: In the last years it has been reported about a new type of diffuse cortical dementia: Lewy body disease (LBD). An important neuropathologic feature is the presence of Lewy bodies in the brainstem and cerebral cortex with different subtypes. LBD ...
Summary: Whether demented elderly are disadvantaged regarding the coverage of the German Pflegeversicherung (Long-term Care Insurance) is currently subject to debate. The Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged (LEILA75+) reports community based results ...
The impact of age-associated decline in cognitive testing for dementia is weak. In the “Leipzig Longitudinal study in the age” we analyzed how the cognitive test performances in SIDAM is influenced by age in nondemented participants. Logistic regressions ...
Summary: The present exploratory study focuses on mild cognitive deficits in the elderly, deficits extending in their intensity beyond a normal decline in performance but (as yet) less severe than the onset of dementia. We investigated correlations ...
Short-Term Rivastigmine Treatment Effects in Alzheimer Patients: Neuropsychological and Electrophysiological ParametersCholinesterase-inhibiting drugs actually are the treatment of choice for dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT). However, there is a lack ...
Dementia in the Very Old is Not a Necessity: Results from the Heidelberg Centenarian StudyIt was the aim of this project to test a modified version of the Mini-Mental State Exam that was developed for the examination of the oldest old. Considering the ...
Abstract: Started in 1991 the longitudinal study SIMA pursued the participants' development of independent living between 1991 and 1998. Until the end of 1998 data from 340 of initially 375 participants were available for analyses with regard to loss of ...
Summary: Cognitive deficits are a core feature of dementia. Neuropsychological assessment can detect cognitive symptoms even at early stages of disease. Moreover, neuropsychological assessment of dementia yields a detailed evaluation of cognitive ...
Maintaining and Supporting Independent Living in Old Age (SIMA) - Part XX: Risk of DementiaSummary: Started in 1991 the longitudinal study SIMA pursued the participants' development of possible dementia between 1991 and 1998. Until the end of 1998 data ...
The Differential Value of Neuropsychological Findings with Respect to the Diagnosis of Brain Disorders with Dementia - A Retrospective AnalysisAbstract: In the present study we aimed at a retrospective analysis of neuropsychological findings in 175 ...
The Neuropsychological Examination in the Differential Diagnosis of Depression and DementiaThe differential diagnosis of depression and dementia is a difficult decision, which may have far-reaching consequences for patients and their relatives. Many ...