Can changes in ward routines affect the severity of dementia? A controlled prospective study.

abstract：:This article reviews longitudinal data collected from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) that are relevant to the design and interpretation of clinical treatment trials. Longitudinal data from patients tested with the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale demonstrate that cognitive symptoms, including memory loss, ...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Mohs RC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Verbal fluency (VF) tasks are simple and efficient clinical tools to detect executive dysfunction and lexico-semantic impairment. VF tasks are widely used in patients with suspected dementia, but their accuracy for detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is still under investigation. Schooling in partic...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Radanovic M,Diniz BS,Mirandez RM,Novaretti TM,Flacks MK,Yassuda MS,Forlenza OV

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this editorial, we challenge the current understanding of "Living Well with Dementia." Such discourse introduces the possibility of not living well with the condition or even of "living badly with dementia." Numerous words might be relevant here - grief, pain, anguish, depression - but in this editorial we consciou...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Bartlett R,Windemuth-Wolfson L,Oliver K,Dening T

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Workforce shortages to meet the mental health needs of the world's aging population are well documented. Within the field of professional geropsychology in the U.S.A., a national conference was convened in 2006 to delineate competencies for psychological practice with older adults and a training model for th...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Karel MJ,Emery EE,Molinari V,CoPGTP Task Force on the Assessment of Geropsychology Competencies.

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Common sense suggests and research indicates relationships between staff factors in residential dementia care and quality of life (QOL) for residents, with poor care increasing suffering. However, we do not have a coherent picture of which staff interventions have an impact on quality of care (QOC) or reside...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Bird M,Anderson K,MacPherson S,Blair A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few would argue that achieving the age of 100 years is extraordinary, but what about the quality of life at this extreme age? Is it worth it to live to 100 and beyond? The study by Araújo, Ribero, Teixeira, and Paúl (2015) in three ways provided an answer to this question substantiating and complementing recent findin...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Martin P,Poon LW

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a previous paper, we presented results from a 12-week study of a Psychomotor DANCe Therapy INtervention (DANCIN) based on Danzón Latin Ballroom that involves motor, emotional-affective, and cognitive domains, using a multiple-baseline single-case design in three care homes. This paper reports the results ...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Guzmán A,Robinson L,Rochester L,James IA,Hughes JC

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressive symptoms are common in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and increase the caregiver burden, although the etiology and pathologic mechanism of depressive symptoms in AD patients remain unclear. In this study, we tried to clarify the cerebral blood flow (CBF) correlates of subjective depressive...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Honda H,Terada S,Sato S,Oshima E,Ikeda C,Nagao S,Yokota O,Uchitomi Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The social and economic burden of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its increasing prevalence has led to much work on new treatment strategies and clinical trials. The search for surrogate markers of disease progression continues but traditional parallel group trial designs that use well-established, but often in...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Thompson PA,Wright DE,Counsell CE,Zajicek J

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to explore the experiences and challenges of informal caregivers in Singapore with the intent of identifying the multi-dimensional unmet needs from their perspective and generating caregivers' needs checklist based on the findings. METHODS:Informal caregivers were relatives of people with d...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Vaingankar JA,Subramaniam M,Picco L,Eng GK,Shafie S,Sambasivam R,Zhang YJ,Sagayadevan V,Chong SA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delirium is a risk factor for long-term cognitive impairment and dementia. Yet, the nature of these cognitive deficits is unknown as is the extent to which the persistence of delirium symptoms and presence of depression at follow-up may account for the association between delirium and cognitive impairment at...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Witlox J,Slor CJ,Jansen RW,Kalisvaart KJ,van Stijn MF,Houdijk AP,Eikelenboom P,van Gool WA,de Jonghe JF

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors would like to apologise for a typographical error in the discussion of the above mentioned article. In the discussion on page 830 of the article, paragraph 'In the present sample, when we tested the accuracy of the MoCA to discriminate between MCI and healthy participants using ROC curves, the best cut-off...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Cecato JF,Martinelli JE,Izbicki R,Yassuda MS,Aprahamian I

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Qualitative research has suggested that spousal carers of someone with dementia differ in terms of whether they perceive their relationship with that person as continuous with the premorbid relationship or as radically different, and that a perception of continuity may be associated with more person-centered...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Riley GA,Fisher G,Hagger BF,Elliott A,Le Serve H,Oyebode JR

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article analyzes the natural history of wandering behavior throughout the course of dementia. DESIGN:Prospective, 10-year, longitudinal study of wandering behavior in dementia, with autopsy follow-up. SETTING:Participants with dementia, living at home with a carer. All lived in Oxfordshire, UK. PARTIC...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Hope T,Keene J,McShane RH,Fairburn CG,Gedling K,Jacoby R

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Social reserve such as having close friends helps promoting activity engagement in old age. Activity engagement in turn contributes to the accumulation of cognitive reserve and is a key predictor for maintaining executive functioning in aging. We investigated the mediating role of leisure activity engagement...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Ihle A,Oris M,Baeriswyl M,Zuber S,Cullati S,Maurer J,Kliegel M

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to examine the levels and rates of depression in Chinese residents living in ethno-specific nursing homes (NHs), and Chinese residents living in mainstream NHs in Sydney. Australia has a growing aging migrant population and rates of depression in NHs are high, but the prevalence of depressio...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Goh I,Low LF,Brodaty H

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ABSTRACTBackground:Dementia is a neurodegenerative syndrome that interferes with multiple aspects of life, including cognition, daily functioning, and behavior. Despite the large heterogeneity in symptom development, these three domains are seldom studied simultaneously. This study investigates how trajectories of the...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Haaksma ML,Leoutsakos JS,Bremer JAE,Aalten P,Ramakers IHGB,Verhey FRJ,Olde Rikkert MGM,Melis RJF

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subjective memory complaints (SMCs) are a common occurrence for adults, which increase with age, and cause considerable distress. Traditionally SMCs have been assessed by either questionnaires, which ask whether a person has experienced given examples of SMCs, or open-ended questions which elicit spontaneous...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Burmester B,Leathem J,Merrick P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vocally disruptive behavior (VDB) in the elderly is a common condition, especially in people with dementia, but difficult to treat. It may occur in as many as 40% of nursing home residents. This study is a review of the existing literature on this condition. METHOD:The literature review was conducted using ...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： von Gunten A,Alnawaqil AM,Abderhalden C,Needham I,Schupbach B

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Nearly half of care home residents with advanced dementia have clinically significant agitation. Little is known about costs associated with these symptoms toward the end of life. We calculated monetary costs associated with agitation from UK National Health Service, personal social services, and societal per...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Buylova Gola A,Morris S,Candy B,Davis S,King M,Kupeli N,Leavey G,Moore K,Nazareth I,Omar R,Vickerstaff V,Jones L,Sampson EL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In dementia, cognitive and psychological disorders might interfere with maintaining social interactions. We have little information about the nature of these interactions of people with dementia in nursing homes. The aim of this study is to investigate social interactions between people with dementia and to ...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Mabire JB,Gay MC,Vrignaud P,Garitte C,Vernooij-Dassen M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been an increasing interest in the relationship between severity of disease and costs in the care of people with dementia. Much of the current evidence is based on cross-sectional data, suggesting the need to examine trends over time for this important and growing cohort of the population. METHODS...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Gillespie P,O'Shea E,Cullinan J,Buchanan J,Bobula J,Lacey L,Gallagher D,Mhaolain AN,Lawlor B,Enhancing Care in Alzheimer’s Disease (ECAD) Study Team.

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Suicide is a major public health concern. The elderly have the highest rate of suicide and they make more lethal suicide attempts and have fewer psychiatric interventions than young people. Furthermore, they have old-age specific psychosocial difficulties. The present study investigated psychosocial risk fac...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Kim YR,Choi KH,Oh Y,Lee HK,Kweon YS,Lee CT,Lee KU

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Australia has a growing aging migrant population and rates of dementia in residential care are high. The communication of persons with dementia and limited English language proficiency in residential care is an area that has received little attention in the research literature. METHOD:Thirty-nine Italian-ba...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Runci SJ,Redman JR,O'Connor DW

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is the most prevalent mental health problem among the elderly, including Chinese-American elderly. A Chinese-language version of the popular Geriatric Depression Scale Long Form (GDS-LF) and Short Form (GDS-SF) was developed. Based on the responses of 50 elderly Chinese immigrants to the U.S. (25 women and ...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Mui AC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This subanalysis of a large, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial examined the prevalence of behavioral symptoms in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease (AD), and the effect of treatment with donepezil. METHODS:Two hundred ninety patients with moderate to severe AD (standardized Mini-Mental State Examina...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Gauthier S,Feldman H,Hecker J,Vellas B,Ames D,Subbiah P,Whalen E,Emir B,Donepezil MSAD Study Investigators Group.

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A careful characterization of behavioral abnormalities in corticobasal degeneration syndrome (CBDS) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) by reliable tools is still lacking. Literature data provided evidence of the usefulness of the Frontal Behavioral Inventory (FBI) to operationalize such disturbances, p...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Borroni B,Alberici A,Agosti C,Cosseddu M,Padovani A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to assess the prevalence, incidence, and persistence of suicidal ideation (SI), and to investigate the psychosocial factors associated with these. METHODS:A total of 1,204 community dwelling elderly adults aged 65 years or older were evaluated at baseline, 909 (75%) of whom were followed tw...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Kang HJ,Stewart R,Jeong BO,Kim SY,Bae KY,Kim SW,Kim JM,Shin IS,Yoon JS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The delirium index (DI) is a valid measure of delirium severity. We proposed to describe longitudinal patterns of severity scores in older long-term care (LTC) residents. METHODS:A prospective cohort study of 280 residents in seven LTC facilities in Montreal and Quebec City, Canada, was conducted. DI, Barth...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Ciampi A,Bai C,Dyachenko A,McCusker J,Cole MG,Belzile E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Symptoms of complicated grief are associated with a traumatic death. However, the subjective experience of whether or not the death was considered traumatic has not been substantially explored. This study first examined the difference between objective and subjective traumatic death, and then investigated th...

journal_title：International psychogeriatrics

authors： Tang S,Chow AY

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00