Lauritzen, Jette Nielsen, Louise Møldrup Kvande, Monica Evelyn Brammer Damsgaard, Janne Gregersen, Rikke
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Aging & mental health
ObjectivesTo explore carers' experiences of everyday life impacted by people with dementia who attended a seven-week cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) group intervention.MethodsA systematic review of qualitative studies and qualitative mixed method studies was conducted. Eight databases were searched. The selected studies were screened and assess...
Antonsdottir, Inga Margret Leoutsakos, Jeannie-Marie Sloan, Danetta Spliedt, Morgan Johnston, Deirdre Reuland, Melissa Lyketsos, Constantine Amjad, Halima Samus, Quincy M
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Aging & mental health
Describe the prevalence and types of unmet needs among community-dwelling dementia care partners (CPs) and determine associations between unmet needs with protective factors, risk factors and outcomes. A cross-sectional analysis of 638 racially and cognitively diverse community-dwelling persons living with dementia (PLWD) and their CPs participatin...
Huang, Yaqi Wang, Yulu Yang, Jin Johansson, Linda Ma, Bingxin Zhang, Xiaojun Lu, Qi Wang, Yaogang Zhao, Yue
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Aging & mental health
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) endorsed by the World Health Organization provides a conceptual framework for describing functioning and disability based on a biopsychosocial model. Although dementia is one of the leading causes of disability, yet little is known on the extent to how the ICF has been uti...
Lin, Zhiyong Tang, Dan
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Aging & mental health
This study examines the longitudinal association between the location of multiple children and depressive symptoms of older parents in rural China, where massive rural-to-urban migration has profoundly altered the family life of the aging population. Using seven waves of panel data from the Longitudinal Study of Older Adults in Anhui Province (2001...
Gerritsen, Debby L
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Aging & mental health
In health care, well-being is considered to be composed of multiple interacting dimensions and to regard the subjective (affective and cognitive) evaluation of these dimensions. These dimensions are often referred to as physical, psychological, and social domains of life. Although there are various disease-specific and group-specific conceptual app...
Knippenberg, Inge A H Leontjevas, Ruslan Stoyanov, Slavi Persoon, Anke Verboon, Peter Vermeulen, Hester van Lankveld, Jacques J D M Gerritsen, Debby L
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Aging & mental health
To identify and structure potential informal antidepressant strategies that can be used in daily practice for nursing home residents alongside formal treatments. In a first Group Concept Mapping study, residents, relatives, and professional caregivers (N = 124) brainstormed on strategies residents could use to prevent or alleviate depression. In a ...
Brennan, Sumiyo Doan, Therese Osada, Hisao Hashimoto, Yumiko
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Aging & mental health
This study aims to validate the Japanese version of Quality of Life-Alzheimer's Disease for Nursing Homes (QOL-AD NH). This is the modified version of QOL-AD, initially developed for residents living with dementia in long-term care settings. Psychometric assessment was conducted in a sample of 101 residents and their professional care staff to obta...
Parajuli, Jyotsana Berish, Diane Jao, Ying-Ling Liao, Yo-Jen Johnson, Lee Ann Walsh, Amanda
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Aging & mental health
To examine health outcomes in community-dwelling older adults with: dementia only, cancer only, and comorbid cancer and dementia. Longitudinal analysis was conducted using data from 2010 to 2016 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Health outcomes included mortality, limitations in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities o...
Poth, Aoife Penger, Susanne Knebel, Maren Müller, Tanja Pantel, Johannes Oswald, Frank Haberstroh, Julia
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Aging & mental health
Objectives: As our society ages, the incidence of age-related diseases increases and with it the number of medical treatments that require informed consent. Capacity to consent is often categorically questioned in persons with dementia (PwD) without appropriate assessment, depriving them of their right to autonomous decision-making. Supportive stru...
Sun, Rongjun Zhang, Zhenmei
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Aging & mental health
In the current literature on cognitive function, life course socioeconomic status (SES) and engaging in leisure activities are often viewed as parallel measures of cognitive reserve that independently affect cognitive impairment in old age. Some studies also suggest that leisure activity mediates the effect of SES on cognitive impairment. What is l...
