BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have an increased risk of dementia. The identification of predictors of conversion to dementia is therefore important. The aim of our study was to test the hypothesis that subcortical hyperintensities (SH) are associated with an increased rate of conversion to dementia in MCI patients. METHODS This was an observational study...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The burden of amyloid β is greater in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies than in those with Parkinson disease dementia, and an increased amyloid β load is closely related to a higher incidence of cerebral microbleeds. Here, we investigated the prevalence and topography of cerebral microbleeds in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies and those with Parkinson disease...

OBJECTIVE to determine the documentation rate of dementia in primary health care, the clinical characteristics of patients with documented and undocumented dementia, and the diagnostic evaluations made in cognitive impairment. DESIGN cross-sectional population-based study with a retrospective review of medical history. SETTING primary health care in the municipality of Lieto, Southwestern F...

BACKGROUND Pain is believed to be undertreated in patients with dementia; however, no larger studies have been conducted. The aim was to investigate prevalent use of opioids in elderly with and without dementia in the entire elderly population of Denmark. METHOD A register-based cross-sectional study in the entire elderly (≥65 years) population in 2010 was conducted. Opioid use among elderly ...

Abstract Background Dementia is often seen as a presenting or existing medical condition for older adults attending hospital services. There are over 64,000 people in Ireland living with dementia. A hospital-wide environmental audit of an acute Irish was completed using the National Audit tool. priority action from this introduction new dementia-friendly signage key patient areas across hospita...

Dementia is a word for an acquired illness in which two or more cognitive abilities are lost due to brain disease injury. The most common form of dementia Alzheimer's type (DAT). It has been associated cerebral cortical degenerative anomalies. It's also visible neurologic diseases that primarily affect subcortical systems such as the basal ganglia and stem. causes plaques β-amyloid tangles intr...