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Home-based medical care (HBMC) delivers physician or advanced practice provider-led medical services for patients in private residences and domiciliary settings (eg, assisted living facilities, group/boarding homes).
Why it matters
This study described growth in home-based medical care visits for Medicare beneficiaries in private homes and domiciliary settings. It is about care utilization trends, not about treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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Deep-learning methods (especially convolutional neural networks) using structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) data have been successfully applied to computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its prodromal stage [i.e., mild cognitive impairment (MCI)].
Why it matters
This paper describes a deep learning method for diagnosing dementia and its prodromal stage from structural MRI scans. It is a computer-aided diagnostic approach and does not offer any treatment, cure, or prevention.
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Hospitalized patients with dementia transitioning to post-acute care may be particularly vulnerable to changes in post-acute care utilization driven by payment reforms; however, use of post-acute care in this population is incompletely understood.
Why it matters
This study describes how Medicare beneficiaries with a dementia diagnosis used skilled nursing facilities and home health care from 2013 to 2016. It reports patterns of care use, not any treatment, cure, or prevention for Alzheimer's disease.
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38/100
Across racial/ethnic groups, 33%-43% in DS and 43%-50% in non-DS used specialists; 47%-55% in DS and 41%-48% in non-DS used ADRD drugs.
Why it matters
This study found no significant gaps in dementia care between the US Deep South and the rest of the country, and differences between Black and White patients were not significant after adjustment. It examined use of specialists and dementia drugs rather than any treatment that changes the disease course.
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Each year, the French independent bulletin Prescrire publishes a list of medicines, "Drugs to avoid", that should not be used in clinical practice as their risk-to-benefit ratio is unfavourable.
Why it matters
This study assessed how many medicines on a 'Drugs to avoid' list were approved, funded, and used in Australia, noting that more than 50,000 patients received an anti-dementia medicine in 2014. It is about medicine regulation and use, not about treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
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Cognitive dysfunction is common in Parkinson's disease (PD) and predicts poor clinical outcomes.
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With the world's population aging at a rapid rate, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has significantly increased.
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This review summarises the most recent evidence regarding the effects of diet in preventing and reducing age-related cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases.
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) encompasses a spectrum of clinical syndromes characterized by progressive executive, behavioural and language dysfunction.
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Many identified themes were consistent with published barriers to quality EOL care in dementia.
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Older people with cognitive impairment are at increased risk of falls; however, fall prevention strategies have limited success in this population.
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We identified a consensus definition for serious illness in surgery.
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Research is needed with methodologically rigorous designs and theoretical frameworks that examine cognitive, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing ACP attitudes, preferences, and behaviors among PWDs in order to improve engagement among this population.
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In this review we summarize the research pertaining to the role of exercise in preventing cognitive decline in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).
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This study consolidates evidence that commonly used signs and symptoms of dehydration lack even basic levels of diagnostic accuracy in older adults, implying that many who are dehydrated are not being identified, thus compromising their health and well-being.
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Among women, the number of years spent living with dementia for Whites, Blacks, U.S.-born Hispanics, and foreign-born Hispanics was 1.6, 3.9, 4.7, and 6.0 years, respectively.
Why it matters
This study estimated years of life spent with dementia among older US adults and found black, US-born Hispanic and foreign-born Hispanic people spent more years with dementia than white people. Foreign-born Hispanic men and women and black men were particularly disadvantaged in the proportion of years after age 50 spent with cognitive impairment or dementia.
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38/100
Improved life expectancy worldwide has resulted in a significant increase in age-related diseases.
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38/100
All people want to age "successfully," maintaining functional capacity and quality of life as they reach advanced age.
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The decline in cognitive function is generally the result of the complex interaction of several factors.
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However, even though neurodegenerative dementia results in the gradual loss of decision-making capacity, ACP is still extremely rare.
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Despite the increasing prevalence, growing costs, and high mortality of dementia in older adults in the U.S., little is known about the course of these diseases and what care dementia patients receive in their final years of life.
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Most importantly attributes included (1) knowing and recognizing the symptoms of decline in dementia and what dying looks like; (2) understanding emotions and grief responses; (3) accessing and appraising supports needed to manage and care for dying; (4) organizing affairs and completing tasks in advance; (5) accepting that losses are inevitable and imminent; (6) reflecting on caregiving and finding meaning, "a silver-lining"; and (7) closing, reconciling, and renewing relationship bonds and completing the family member's life.
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The importance of better care integration is emphasized in many national dementia plans.
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Aging-related cognitive decline represents a critical risk factor for the development of dementia and is associated with global neurophysiological changes.
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Recent findings Results suggest that higher adherence to a healthy dietary pattern is associated with preservation of brain structure and function as well as slower cognitive decline, with the MIND diet substantially slowing cognitive decline, over and above the MeDi and DASH diets.
From across this topic
9 of the 7,967 studies in this topic, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 9. The same 9 appear here every time.
- Dementia Friendly Buildings—Approach on Architectures
- Projections of multi-morbidity in the older population in England to 2035: estimates from the Population Ageing and Care Simulation (PACSim) model
- Serious Games for Learning Among Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- The effect of sleep disturbances on the incidence of dementia for varying lag times
- Prevalence, laterality, and comorbidity of hippocampal sclerosis in an autopsy sample
- Advancing Knowledge Translation Through Cultural Adaptation of an Intervention for Latino Family Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia Using Participatory Action Research
- Remote Blood Biomarkers of Longitudinal Cognitive Outcomes in a Population Study
- Identifying undetected dementia in UK primary care patients: a retrospective case-control study comparing machine-learning and standard epidemiological approaches
- Prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment in Southeastern Spain: the Ariadna study