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1,246 studies tagged prevalence, dated 1968-07-01 to 2026-09-23. Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)
Newest in this topic
- Prevalence of dementia among community-dwelling older adults in rural Uganda: findings from DEPEND Uganda (Dementia Epidemiology, unmet need and co-developing solutions in Uganda) 2026-09-23
- Cognition in Whitehall II 'SuperAgers': An Analysis of Dementia Risk Factors 2026-09-14
- A National Survey Exploring Dementia Diagnostics and Care Provisions in Primary Care in England 2026-09-12
Studies
1,246 studies carry this tag.
Date range
1968 to 2026
Top journals
- Alzheimer s & Dementia 76
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 52
- Neurology 40
- Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 37
- International journal of geriatric psychiatry 26
493 journals in all.
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Frontotemporal dementia is an umbrella clinical term that encompasses a group of neurodegenerative diseases characterised by progressive deficits in behaviour, executive function, or language.
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Vascular dementia is one of the most common causes of dementia after Alzheimer's disease, causing around 15% of cases.
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Previous studies have indicated a prevalence of dementia in older admissions of ∼42% in a single London teaching hospital, and 21% in four Queensland hospitals.
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Nutritional care and support should be an integral part of dementia management.
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Although preclinical dementia is characterized by decline in cognition and daily functioning, little is known on their temporal sequence.
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In total, 1,234 articles were identified from the search; 21 articles met inclusion criteria.
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Pilot studies applying a humanoid robot (NAO), a pet robot (PARO) and a real animal (DOG) in therapy sessions of patients with dementia in a nursing home and a day care center.
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Besides the MMSE, there are many other tests with comparable diagnostic performance for detecting dementia.
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Dementia is receiving increasing attention from governments and politicians.
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A substantial part of dementia cases could be prevented if modifiable risk factors would be eliminated.
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Dealing with the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) is often complex.
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Delirium and dementia are two of the most common causes of cognitive impairment in older populations, yet their interrelation remains poorly understood.
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The prevalence of dementia was estimated at 44.4 million people worldwide in 2013, and in the absence of any significant new scientific discovery, prevalence rates are estimated to increase to 75.6 million in 2030 and 135.5 million in 2050.1 Alzheimer’s disease is the most common irreversible form of dementia.
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An estimated 47 million people worldwide are living with dementia in 2015, and this number is projected to triple by 2050.
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The QDRS provides a rapid method to determine study eligibility; stage patients in clinical practice; and improve case ascertainment in population studies.
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The IDEA cognitive screen performed well in these populations and should prove useful in screening for dementia and delirium in other areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Main results Seventeen trials with 1067 participants met the inclusion criteria.
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Nutrition is an important modifiable risk factor that plays a role in the strategy to prevent or delay the onset of dementia.
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Urinary tract infections, pressure areas, pneumonia and delirium are potentially preventable hospital-acquired complications.
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Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia include agitation, depression, apathy, repetitive questioning, psychosis, aggression, sleep problems, wandering, and a variety of inappropriate behaviors.
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We found a 2- to 3-fold geographical variation in dementia odds in Sweden, after twin random effects-likely to capture genetic and shared environmental variance-were removed.
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The odds of the occurrence and of a greater severity of dementia were higher in 2010/2011 than in 2004/2005.
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Bilingualism has been reported to delay the age of retrospective report of first symptom in dementia.
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Out of 3127 abstracts, 291 were included in the review.
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Each syndrome can be associated with one or more underlying neuropathological diagnoses and are referred to as frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).
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The prevalence of comorbid conditions in people with dementia is high.
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The results of this review highlight the significant economic burden of dementia for patients, families and healthcare systems and thus are important for future health policy planning.
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One challenge faced by many family members caring for persons with dementia is lack of information about how to take care of others and themselves.
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Non-Hispanic white and NHB Health and Retirement Study (HRS) participants provided genetic information and either a composite memory score (n = 10,401) or a dementia probability score (n = 7690).
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Significant comorbidities were discovered at autopsy in individuals with dementia.
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Thirty-three per cent of the hospital beds were occupied with ALC patients; 63% had a diagnosis of dementia.
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The prevalence of dementia varies substantially worldwide.
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Higher Hcy levels, lower educational attainment, and decreased physical activity were particularly strong predictors of incident AD.
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Symptoms of memory loss are caused by a range of cognitive abilities or a general cognitive decline, and not just memory.
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Machine learning techniques have been widely used to detect morphological abnormalities from structural brain magnetic resonance imaging data and to support the diagnosis of neurological diseases such as dementia.
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Assisted living residences have become prominent sites of long-term residential care for older adults with dementia.
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Ever since Kiloh (1961)[2] coined the term pseudo-dementia, it has been used a little loosely for describing the cognitive deficits in depression, especially, which is found in old age.
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As the population ages, it is increasingly important to use effective short cognitive tests for suspected dementia.
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388,899 deaths were included. Most people died in care homes (55.3%) or hospitals (39.6%).
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Knowledge about dementia is low and the symptoms are accepted as a problem of old age.
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Noncognitive neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) of dementia (aggression, agitation, depression, anxiety, delusions, hallucinations, apathy, disinhibition) affect individuals with dementia nearly universally across dementia stages and etiologies.
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The final Dementia Screening Indicator included age (1 point/year; ages, 65-79 years), less than 12 years of education (9 points), stroke (6 points), diabetes mellitus (3 points), body mass index less than 18.5 kg/m(2) (8 points), requiring assistance with money or medications (10 points), and depressive symptoms (6 points).
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Individuals with dementia were more likely to be diagnosed with 15 comorbidity complexes, including Parkinson's, stroke, diabetes, atherosclerosis (supposed dementia risk factors) or fluids and electrolyte disorders, insomnia, incontinence, pneumonia, fractures and injuries (supposed sequelae).
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There was clear evidence of generalization especially in patients with milder semantic impairments.
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Broad consensus emerged on the protective role against dementia of leisure activities.
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Since its opening in 2000, patient care and research go hand in hand at the Alzheimer center of the VU University Medical Center, both organized in such a way that they mutually strengthen each other.
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fifty-five geriatricians responded. Ninety-one per cent were consultant physicians, and 71% were not involved in outpatient diagnostic services.
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This is the largest study so far documenting a delayed onset of dementia in bilingual patients and the first one to show it separately in different dementia subtypes.
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Vascular cognitive impairment defines alterations in cognition, ranging from subtle deficits to full-blown dementia, attributable to cerebrovascular causes.
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Researchers re-ran the same detailed dementia survey in the same three parts of England twenty years apart.
From across this tag
10 of the 1,233 studies in this tag, 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 10. The same 10 appear here every time.
- Our youth, our compass: families walking with younger‐onset dementia shine light on stigma
- The inflammatory profiling in a cohort of older patients suffering from cognitive decline and dementia
- The rise and fall of frequency and imageability: noun and verb production in semantic dementia
- Community-Based Participatory Research on Art Engagement for People with Dementia in Japan
- Cross-cultural differences in dementia: the Sociocultural Health Belief Model
- Reliability and validity analysis of the Chinese version of the Quick Dementia Rating System (QDRS)
- Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥ 65 years in rural America, by Census region and select demographic characteristics: 2020
- A scoping review of interventions for Hispanic caregivers of persons living with dementia
- Can the herpes zoster vaccination be a strategy against dementia?
- Geographical Variation in Opioid Use in Elderly Patients with Dementia: A Nationwide Study