Sentences with phrase «patient with dementia»

They also found a 50 percent reduction in stress symptoms in half of caregivers of patients with dementia.

Cases like this «raise important questions about the safety of this and other commonly used agents in patients with dementia,» note the authors.

The results preliminary, but may be important in the research of elderly patients with dementia, especially if they are not very mobile.

The authors argue that as long as patients with dementia are excluded from clinical trials, physicians can't make evidence - based recommendations for this rapidly growing group.

Until patients with dementia are included in clinical trials, physicians can't make evidence - based recommendations for this rapidly growing group.

The role of nurses in treating patients with dementia.

But evidence shows that only a small proportion of patients with dementia or cognitive impairment are recognised in this setting.

In 2011, he donated $ 1 million to the RAND Corporation to establish the Zwick Impact Fund, which has studied autonomous vehicle safety, the benefits of educating prison inmates, the prevention of hazing in the military and the cost of caring for patients with dementia.

Older patients with dementia represent a clinical challenge.

The highest risk of death was seen among patients with multiple system atrophy with parkinsonism, followed by patients with dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson disease dementia and Parkinson disease, according to the results.

From former NFL players who have developed Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy to your grandmother with Alzheimer's, why do patients with dementia do inappropriate things?

«I really hope,» she says, «that our studies will one day translate into helping human patients with dementia.»

In those two decades, Mayo Clinic evaluated 67,000 patients with a dementia diagnosis.

The authors suggest that current efforts to include more women, children and the elderly in clinical trials should be extended to include patients with dementia in low - risk studies of treatments for non-dementia illnesses.

Unfortunately, the studies that led to the guidelines excluded patients with dementia.

Take an already immobile patient with dementia who, as a result of poor risk assessment and care while in hospital, suffers a fall and fractures a hip.

Kickbacks can harm patients not only through indirect financial exploitation and abuse, but also by giving nursing home staff access to drugs that could be used as chemical restraint, such as Risperdal, which is an antipsychotic medicine that has come under fire recently for being wrongly prescribed to nursing home patients with dementia.

Attended various workshops held by therapists and psychologists in order to better understand what patients with dementia or Alzheimer go through.

As you know, I have worked in the geriatric ward for the previous 6 years and have been actively looking after patients with dementia and other challenging conditions.

I was assigned to a particularly irate patient with dementia.

Elderly patients with dementia, or any other patient in cognitive decline, present a unique ethical dilemma.

Document cognitive therapy for adult patients with dementia in accordance with Medicare guidelines

Facilitated 24 - hour care for patient with dementia - assisted with bathing, prepared meals, and dressed client

The present study aimed to assess the clinimetric properties of the Algoplus ®, as compared to PAINAID, for detecting acute pain in a real - world cohort of hospitalized older patients with dementia.

Retirement homes for elderly patients with dementia and Alzheimer's disease across the U.S. are quickly adopting pets like these — just that they aren't exactly alive.

The Image of the Year study adds a new dimension to the role of PET in aiding the diagnosis and treatment of patients with dementia.

They also argue that as long as patients with dementia are excluded from clinical trials of therapies for common age - related diseases, such as osteoporosis or arthritis, physicians will have insufficient data to make evidence - based recommendations for this rapidly growing group.

The research team genotyped 1,743 patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)-- including both clinical samples and 1,324 pathological samples assessed post-mortem — and 4,454 controls.

Agitation lessened in patients with dementia in the SMILE study not just throughout the 12 week humour therapy plan, but continued to be lower at 26 weeks.

But Gibbs, who works primarily with elderly patients with dementia, said that she was struggling to make ends meet.

This could help doctors in the future to come up with better treatments for patients with dementia or disorders of the hippocampus.

Going back 40 years, I was very struck by the therapeutic power of music with many of the patients I saw: Parkinson's patients, patients with aphasia, patients with dementia.

Rumiati and Carnaghi selected a number of patients with dementia and subjected them to tests assessing the selectivity of their impairments.

For patients with dementia, non-specialists seemed to help in reducing symptoms and in improving their carers» coping skills.

«In light of these risks, the FDA has issued warnings of increased mortality regarding antipsychotics in elderly patients with dementia, particularly for «atypical» (or 2nd generation) antipsychotics» said Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D., senior advisor for mental health service, epidemiology and economics at NIMH and one of the co-authors of the report.

«Every patient with dementia has a unique narrative, which if captured in the earlier stages of the disease, enables clinicians and their families to understand the origin of their distress.

«Some patients with dementia may experience delayed - onset PTSD.»

The generic risperidone products will have the same safety warnings as Risperdal, including a boxed warning, cautioning that older patients with dementia - related psychosis treated with atypical anti-psychotic drugs are at increased risk of death, as compared with those taking placebo.

The most frequent abnormal analysis was the serum cholesterol, that was high in 28.8 % of patients with MCI and in 20.4 % of patients with dementia.

Cognitive decline in elderly people can be caused by a specific and treatable metabolic disorder, and the use of laboratory tests is recommended as part of the diagnostic workup of patients with dementia.

It was possible to detect, both in patients with MCI (1.5 % and in patients with dementia (3.5 %, a non-significant difference), abnormal metabolic values, indicating poorly controlled diabetes, renal failure, hyponatremia, folate or vitamin B12 deficiency and hyperthyroidism, which correction led to clinical improvement.

As much as 55.1 % of patients... with MCI and 60.0 % of patients with dementia had at least one abnormal laboratory value (a non-significant difference).

Abstract: Cognitive decline in elderly people can be caused by a specific and treatable metabolic disorder, and the use of laboratory tests is recommended as part of the diagnostic workup of patients with dementia.

with MCI and 60.0 % of patients with dementia had at least one abnormal laboratory value (a non-significant difference).

Two other vignettes consider other issues raised by a 78 - year - old patient with dementia and an abnormal heart rhythm, and the value of screening tests for high cholesterol or colon cancer in a 69 - year - old patient with dementia.

In a «Special Communication» in the June 28, 2000 issue of JAMA, three Chicago physicians use a catastrophic and unanticipated complication of routine medical care to alert physicians that for patients with dementia, every clinical decision requires extensive consideration.

Summary: A catastrophic complication of routine medical care shows that for patients with dementia every clinical decision requires extensive consideration.

«When therapy involves a patient with dementia, the established equations balancing the benefits and burdens of treatment no longer add up,» said Daniel Brauner, MD, associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Chicago and first author of the article.

The 96,420 patients with dementia or other mental illness who were discharged from psychiatric hospitals in September of every 3 years from 1996 to 2014... were included in analyses.

Background: Antipsychotics and other psychotropics are frequently used to treat neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia, even though the evidence for effect is limited.