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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of memantine in a behaviorally enriched sample of patients with moderate-to-severe Alzheimer’s disease
...Background: Agitation and aggression in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are amongst the most serious of neuropsychiatric symptoms, and contribute to poor outcomes and worse quality of life. Previous studies have...

Ten‐year trajectory of potentially inappropriate medications in very old women: Importance of cognitive status
Objectives: To determine which older adults tend to receive potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs), how this may differ according to cognitive status, and how the trajectories of PIM use...

Results from the multisite implementation of STAR-VA: a multicomponent psychosocial intervention for managing challenging dementia-related behaviors of veterans
...Dementia is often associated with challenging behaviors that can significantly impact the quality of life of individuals with dementia and pose great difficulty for long-term care staff. Antipsychotic medications,...

Impact of TimeSlips creative expression program on behavioral symptoms and psychotropic medication use in persons with dementia in long-term care: a cluster-randomized pilot study
...to determine whether involvement in TimeSlips reduces mood and behavioral symptoms that compromise quality of life for persons with dementia.; Copyright © 2014 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by...

Cost effectiveness of donepezil in the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease: A UK evaluation using discrete-event simulation
Background: Recommendations in the UK suggest restricting treatment of Alzheimer’s disease with cholinesterase inhibitors, on cost-effectiveness grounds, to patients with moderate cognitive decline. As the economic analyses that...

A complex multimodal activity intervention to reduce the risk of dementia in mild cognitive impairment–ThinkingFit: Pilot and feasibility study for a randomized controlled trial
Background: Dementia affects 35 million people worldwide and is currently incurable. Many cases may be preventable because regular participation in physical, mental and social leisure activities during middle...

Clinical outcomes and complications of enteral nutrition among older adults
...displacement is frequent with NGT but not with PEG and may be a cause of physical restraint, compromising in this way patient’s quality of life. In this study, survival was...

Psychotropic drug consumption at admission and discharge of nursing home residents
...groups of health care providers should be targeted by educational measures to improve the quality of care for NH residents.; Copyright © 2012 American Medical Directors Association, Inc. Published by...

Dementia guidelines: what should come to general practice–an interdisciplinary consensus of physicians in private practice
...Background: Guidelines of Medical Societies aim at supporting the quality of medical care in general, and particularly in private practice. Usually, physicians in private practice are not part of...

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