Sleep is so integral to brain health that it can actually be used to
diagnose dementia in its early stages.
«Dementia diagnosis linked to unnecessary medication use: New study finds medication use increases in
newly diagnosed dementia patients.»
A new international study led by University of Sydney has found that medication use increases in newly
diagnosed dementia patients, particularly unnecessary or inappropriate medications.
Seek a physician who has
experience diagnosing dementia and who works with dementia patients — your primary care doctor, a geriatrician, geriatric psychologist or a neurologist, Miller says.
The Policy View discusses data from five large epidemiological studies done in Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, and Spain that compare dementia occurrence in old people across two periods of time using the same methods
of diagnosing dementia in the same geographical regions.
Diagnosing dementia involves multiple steps, including ruling out other causes of cognitive decline that could be appropriately treated and potentially reversed.
Ahead of the fifth global Alzheimer's month this September Lisa Mainwaring speaks to Jennifer Bute - a Christian doctor who used to
diagnose dementia but now lives with it.
NEC members commented on fees for employment tribunals, privatisation, messages on child poverty and paying GPs # 55 to
diagnose dementia, and requested faster increases in the national minimum wage and support for the TUC decent jobs week in December.
However, those studies used less definitive methods to
diagnose dementia, which raises the possibility they included data from patients who didn't have Alzheimer's disease.
MRI scans and other tools to detect and
diagnose dementia are helpful but not definitive — according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
From a neuropathological standpoint we have enough difficulty, during life,
diagnosing dementia and Alzheimer's in patients.»
A simple memory evaluation to
diagnose dementia can be hard to get in some areas of the UK, so with their high price tag, it's a stretch to suggest this new type of brain scan could revolutionise dementia screening.