Doulberis, Michael Kotronis, Georgios Gialamprinou, Dimitra Polyzos, Stergios A Papaefthymiou, Apostolis Katsinelos, Panagiotis Kountouras, Jannis
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The International journal of neuroscience
Background: Alzheimer disease (AD) is a leading cause of global burden with great impact on societies. Although research is working intensively on promising therapy, the problem remains up-to-date. Among the various proposed hypotheses regarding causality and therapy, emerging evidence supports the hypothesis that gastrointestinal microbiota throug...
Kunutsor, Setor K Laukkanen, Jari A Kauhanen, Jussi Willeit, Peter
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European journal of clinical investigation
While it is well established that physical activity is associated with reduced risk of vascular and nonvascular outcomes as well as mortality, evidence on the association between physical activity and dementia is inconsistent. We aimed to assess the associations of physical activity with the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD). We analyse...
Zarit, Steven H Chiusano, Carrie Harrison, Aime S Sewell, Lynne Krause, Christopher Liu, Yin
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Aging & mental health
The current study examined how a technology system, "It's Never 2 Late" (iN2L), may help augment traditional rehabilitation strategies for older adults with dementia by improving engagement in therapy sessions and achieving better functional outcomes. The study used a two group quasi-experimental design. Older adults with dementia (N = 96) were rec...
Giebel, Clarissa Lord, Kathryn Cooper, Claudia Shenton, Justine Cannon, Jacqueline Pulford, Daniel Shaw, Lisa Gaughan, Anna Tetlow, Hilary Butchard, Sarah
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International journal of geriatric psychiatry
The aim of this national survey was to explore the impact of COVID-19 public health measures on access to social support services and the effects of closures of services on the mental well-being of older people and those affected by dementia. A UK-wide online and telephone survey was conducted with older adults, people with dementia, and carers bet...
Curnow, Eleanor Rush, Robert Maciver, Donald Górska, Sylwia Forsyth, Kirsty
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Aging & mental health
To provide prevalence estimates of needs of people with dementia living at home, and to determine sources of variation associated with needs for this population. A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed searching CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and ASSIA databases. Following quality checks, random effects meta-analysis produced prevalence esti...
Neubauer, N A Liu, L
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Aging & mental health
To address risks associated with critical dementia-related wandering, three guidelines were developed for use by persons living with dementia, their care partners, and professional staff, to choose wander-management strategies. This evidence-based research incorporates knowledge mobilization approaches that directly involve the three types of stake...
Falzarano, Francesca Siedlecki, Karen L
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Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition
Extensive literature exists documenting the relationship between stress and cognition. Caregiving for an individual with Alzheimer's disease can be aunique and chronic stress experience due to the increasing dependency of the care-recipient as the disease progresses. The current study examines the relationship between stress and cognitive performan...
Chamberlain, Jonviea Rouanet, Anaïs Dubois, Bruno Pasquier, Florence Hanon, Olivier Gabelle, Audrey Ceccaldi, Mathieu Krolak-Salmon, Pierre Béjot, Yannick Godefroy, Olivier
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IntroductionStudies on the association of cancer and risk of dementia are inconclusive due to result heterogeneity and concerns of survivor bias and unmeasured confounding.MethodsThis study uses data from the Memento cohort, a French multicenter cohort following persons with either mild or isolated cognitive complaints for a median of 5 years. Illn...
Sousa, Lia Sequeira, Carlos Ferré-Grau, Carme Graça, Luís
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
The aim of this article was to present the preliminary results of a training programme for family caregivers of people with dementia at an early to moderate stage living at home - 'Living Together With Dementia'. In this randomised controlled trial, 27 family caregivers who met the inclusion criteria were recruited from the neurology outpatient con...
Teo, Yugin
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Medical humanities
In the 2010s, a small number of science fiction films and television series exploring the theme of the robot carer and how humans respond to them were released. This paper explores three works in this regard: the films Robot & Frank (dir. Jake Schreier, USA 2012), Big Hero 6 (dir. Don Hall/Chris Williams, USA 2014) and the television series Humans ...
