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Filter by:Person-centred care can be supported when healthcare professionals access and actively use the information recorded in a life story. Active use of the life story can create security for a person with dementia and their carers. The written life story describes the person and their life experiences, which can define the person's identity. National guidelines for care and nursing in dementia and Blekinge's regional guidelines emphasise the importance of care and nursing for people with dementia, which should be given with a person-centred approach, where the life story becomes a tool for healthcare professionals. Research shows that a life story can be designed in several ways. For example, in book form, as a brochure, collage, memory box or electronically. The life story is also intended as a tool for healthcare professionals to create security and facilitate communication with the individual. As more and more older adults are using computers and tablets as assistive devices, and it is also becoming more common for healthcare professionals to use, for example, tablets as assistive devices in nursing care, the life story could be shared in digital form as an application and become a living document. Overall aim: To test an application for the life story with the intention of supporting person-centred care for older adults with dementia and to test whether the application can replace the written completion document. Study I: Exploring the research area of the life story in digital form. Study II: Focus group interviews with healthcare professionals. Study III: Test the application, Min Memoria. Study IV: Observations on the use of the application.
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effects of social isolation and social interaction on the risk of dementia progression and brain function in SCD 1. To explore the association between social isolation and lonely SCD populations and the occurrence and progression of MCI and AD through cross-sectional studies, cohort studies and randomized controlled trials of SCD; 2. To clarify the correlation between different carrier states, resting brain function connectivity characteristics, and dual-task walking ability of APOEε4 allele and the progression of SCD to MCI and AD during the cognitive progress of people with SCD affected by social isolation; 3. Establish a predictive model of cognitive decline from SCD to MCI and AD, and apply it to the SCD population to carry out individualized interventions; 4. Confirm the protective effect of social interaction on cognitive level and brain function in SCD patients.
A 6-month pilot randomized controlled trial designed to test the effect of the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) Diet + usual medical care versus usual medical care on cognitive change and several other secondary outcomes through a randomized controlled trial in 60 mild stroke patients aged 35-70 years without dementia.
The purpose of this study is to find out the difference in genetic test results between Alzheimer's dementia patients and healthy subjects. The investigators want to identify genes that are importantly related to Alzheimer's dementia.
This study aims to assess the efficacy of social media-based electronic bibliotherapy in improving the well-being of informal caregivers of people with dementia compared to a control group.
Delirium is highly prevalent and very bad for patients with dementia. Delirium is a dangerous medical condition that occurs in 6-38% of older Emergency Department patients and 70% of ICU patients. A person who develops delirium in the ED or hospital has a 12 times higher odds of being newly diagnosed with dementia in the next year compared to a similar patient who does not become delirious. Delirium is especially dangerous for persons living with Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD). Persons living with ADRD have an almost 50% chance of developing delirium in the hospital. Clinicians are bad at recognizing delirium. A recent systematic review led by the Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research network (NIH funded) found that current delirium screening tools are at most 64% sensitive, meaning that physicians can identify some phenotypes of delirium well, but cannot easily rule out delirium in acutely ill older patients. The investigators propose integrating wrist biosensors into the emergency management of older adults with dementia. The investigators will monitor heart rate variability, movement, and electrodermal activity (electrical activity of at the level of the skin) to determine if an array of biosensors more sensitive to delirium than current verbal screening tools.
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), a common cerebrovascular small vessel disease (SVD), is a frequently (98%) found co-morbidity at autopsy in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Current in vivo hallmarks of CAA represent changes relatively late in the disease process and leaves CAA in AD often undetected. Recently, it was shown that decreased vascular reactivity (VR) measured with blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI, after visual stimulus, is an early CAA marker. With BOLD-MRI to detect decreased VR in different stages of AD, it was shown that increasing stages of AD associate with decreasing VR independent of age, classic SVD markers and atrophy. Moreover, VR is associated with cognitive deficits. Therefore, cross-sectional data indicate that decreased VR is an important co-morbidity already in early stages of AD with an independent effect on disease severity. In this respect, the study aim is to determine the natural course of the decrease of VR in both controls and (early stage) AD patients to monitor AD disease progression. This is an essential step to aid in the development and application of effective treatment as it is expected that CAA can cause/worsen AD pathology.
The goal of this observational study is to investigate the frequency and the possible pathogenic role of neuronal synaptic antibodies (NSAb) in patients with cognitive impairment (CI). The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. the frequency and associated features of NSAb in patients with CI and the usefulness of a clinical score in improving autoimmune dementia (AID) diagnosis; 2. the clinical significance of NSAb in patients with CI not fulfilling the autoimmune encephalitis (AE) criteria and serum NSAb (NSAb-pos-CI); 3. the impact of blood-brain-barrier (BBB) dysfunction on their pathogenicity.
The aim of the present study is to investigate potential cognitive mechanisms contributing to working memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. The investigators consider a new hypothesis suggesting that difficulties in mobilizing maintenance strategies of information could explain this working memory deficit. More specifically, the investigators assume that patient groups will have difficulties in employing both refreshing and elaborative strategies during a working memory task (i.e., complex span task), as compared to a control group.
The study will investigate the effects of an inovative intervention based on the use of music on 45 professionals in the field of dementia, 45 elderly people with dementia.