Sentences with phrase «diagnosis of dementia»

RAND researchers found that one of the first steps to help individuals plan for long - term care needs is to increase detection and diagnosis of dementia through better outreach to the public and wider use of cognitive assessment tools by providers.

The government is putting pressure on commissioners, and in turn general practitioners, to make more diagnoses of dementia, but no analysis has been done to assess the harm that these targets could cause.

The mean age at first diagnosis of dementia was 80.7 years.

A growing body of evidence suggests that lifelong bilingualism is associated with the delayed diagnosis of dementia.

You may need to revise more cautiously if that health news involves a diagnosis of dementia or another condition associated with cognitive decline, said Alaimo.

Six months later she was given a medical discharge with a diagnosis of dementia praecox.

«Our study found that following a diagnosis of dementia in older people, medication use increased by 11 per cent in a year and the use of potentially inappropriate medications increased by 17 per cent,» said lead author Dr Danijela Gnjidic, NHMRC Dementia Leadership Fellow and Senior Lecturer from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre at University of Sydney.

«It is pertinent that we develop a better understanding of the lifelong behaviours that may contribute to cognitive decline in late life by implementing a life - span approach whereby younger, middle - aged, and older adults are collectively studied, and where lifestyle risk factors are evaluated prior to a diagnosis of dementia,» said Cohen.

Fourth, a diagnosis of dementia is ruled out.

Stern also added that these findings suggest that the diagnosis of dementia in older individuals with a history of repeat brain trauma may be difficult because many of the symptoms of CTE are similar to other diseases such as Alzheimer's.

These participants were not currently using alcohol or illicit substances and did not have diagnoses of dementia or other neurological problems.

These studies are of great interest to us at the Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Center as we consider the long - term impact of sustained stress on family caregivers and adults living with a diagnosis of dementia.

Each case received a diagnosis of dementia of the Alzheimer type using criteria equivalent to those of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke — Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association for probable AD.14, 15 Individuals with a Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR) score of 0.5 who did not meet the clinical criteria for probable AD were not included in the analyses.

A diagnosis of dementia does not automatically mean you have lost capacity to make these decisions for yourself.

Assessing one's spatial ability is an important stage in the diagnosis of dementia.

The exhibition will span nearly seven decades, concluding with some of his spare abstract paintings from the late 1980s, around the time he received a diagnosis of dementia.

England About Blog This is the story of Paul and Maureen's journey after Maureen's diagnosis of dementia following stroke in February 2014 and now has mixed dementia.