Publications by authors named "Alain Bredin"
Background: Knowledge of functional evolution in dementia is crucial for the patients and their families as well as the clinician.
Objective: This review identifies scales and outcomes used to describe the natural history of functional decline and describes the natural history of functional decline in a representative clinical population sample of published studies of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Methods: A search of three relevant databases was conducted and limited to articles published in English and French between 1998 to March 2012, using the keywords "Dementia", "Activities of Daily Living", "Instrumental Activities of Daily Living", "Functional Impairment", "Prognosis", and "Disease Progression".