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Electronic organiser and Alzheimer’s disease: fact or fiction?
Imbeault, Hélène,
Bier, Nathalie,
Pigot, Hélène,
Gagnon, Lise,
Marcotte, Nicolas,
Fulop, Tamas,
Giroux, Sylvain
Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative disease characterised by a progressive loss of cognitive functions and impairment of activities of daily living severe enough to interfere with normal functioning. To help persons with this disease perform a variety of activities, our research team developed AP@LZ, an electronic organiser specifically designed for them. Two participants with Alzheimer’s […]
Nursing homes and end-of-life care in Japan
Objectives: To describe end-of-life care in Japanese nursing homes by comparing facility and characteristics of residents dying in nursing homes with those who had been transferred and had died in hospitals, and by comparing the quality of end-of-life care with hospitals and with their respective counterparts in the United States.; Setting: National sample of 653 […]
Long-term safety and efficacy of donepezil in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies: results from a 52-week, open-label, multicenter extension study
Ikeda, Manabu,
Mori, Etsuro,
Kosaka, Kenji,
Iseki, Eizo,
Hashimoto, Mamoru,
Matsukawa, Noriyuki,
Matsuo, Kazutaka,
Nakagawa, Masaki
Background/aims: To investigate the safety and efficacy of long-term administration (52 weeks) of donepezil in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).; Methods: This was a 52-week, multicenter, open-label extension study. Up to 8 weeks after the completion of the preceding randomized, placebo-controlled trial (RCT), patients started treatment with 3 mg of donepezil daily for […]
Long-term statin therapy is associated with better episodic memory in aged familial hypercholesterolemia patients in comparison with population controls
Hyttinen, Laura,
TuulioHenriksson, Annamari,
Vuorio, Alpo F.,
Kuosmanen, Noora,
Härkänen, Tommi,
Koskinen, Seppo,
Strandberg, Timo E.
The cognitive status of aged familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) patients treated with long-term statin therapy was compared with that of population controls. A comprehensive cohort of 43 elderly (age > or = 65 years) patients all with the same FH North Karelia mutation living in North Karelia (eastern Finland) was identified, 37 of whom (aged 65 […]
A home-based training program improves caregivers’ skills and dementia patients’ aggressive behaviors: a randomized controlled trial
Huang, Huei-Ling,
Kuo, Li-Min,
Chen, Yu-Shu,
Liang, Jersey,
Huang, Hsiu-Li,
Chiu, Yi-Chen,
Chen, Sien-Tsong,
Sun, Yu,
Hsu, Wen-Chuin,
Shyu, Yea-Ing L.
Objective: To investigate the effects of an individualized, home-based caregiver-training program for caregivers of elderly patients with dementia and behavioral problems.; Methods: Using a randomized clinical trial in the neurologic clinics of two hospitals and a community care management center in northern Taiwan, we tested an individualized home-based caregiver-training program for managing behavioral problems, with […]