Waldorff, F. B., Buss, D. V., Eckermann, A., Rasmussen, M. L. H., Keiding, N., Rishøj, S., Siersma, V., Sørensen, J., Sørensen, L. V., VOGEL, A., WALDEMAR, G.

Objective: To assess the efficacy at 12 months of an early psychosocial counselling and support programme for outpatients with mild Alzheimer’s disease and their primary care givers.; Design: Multicentre, randomised, controlled, rater blinded trial.; Setting: Primary care and memory clinics in five Danish districts.; Participants: 330 outpatients with mild Alzheimer’s disease and their 330 primary […]

Fosbøl, Emil L., Peterson, Eric D., Holm, Ellen, Gislason, Gunnar H., Zhang, Yinghong, Curtis, Lesley H., Køber, Lars, Iwata, Isao, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Setoguchi, Soko

Objectives: To compare the cardiovascular safety of currently marketed dementia medications in new users in the United States and Denmark.; Design: Retrospective cohort study.; Setting: Nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries from 2006 through 2009 and nationwide Danish administrative registries from 1997 through 2007.; Participants: Individuals treated with a dementia medication aged 65 and older.; […]

NIELSEN, T. R., VOGEL, A., GADE, A., WALDEMAR, G.

Methods for culturally and linguistically appropriate cognitive testing of elderly minority populations are lacking in Europe. The aim of this study was to compare performance on the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS) and the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) in Turkish immigrants in Denmark and determine the impact of demographic and health-related variables on […]

Nielsen, T. Rune, Andersen, Birgitte Bo, Gottrup, Hanne, Lützhøft, Jan H., Høgh, Peter, Waldemar, Gunhild

Background/aims: The Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS) is a brief cognitive screening test that was developed to detect dementia in multicultural populations. The RUDAS has not previously been validated in multicultural populations outside of Australia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the RUDAS in a multicultural sample of […]