The French translation of the dementia screening questionnaire for individuals with intellectual disabilities is a sensitive tool for screening for dementia in people with Down Syndrome.

Background: People with Down Syndrome (DS) are at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease (AD) relatively early in life. The dementia screening questionnaire for individuals with intellectual disabilities (DSQIID) has been developed for people with intellectual disabilities and was shown to have high discriminative power to distinguish between people with and without dementia. The objective of this study was to verify if the French version of the DSQIID (DSQIID-F) had a good diagnostic specificity and to determine the optimal cut-off for screening people with DS for dementia.

Removal of Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease from the List of Reimbursable Drugs in France: Analysis of Change in Drug Use, Disease Management and Cognition Using the National Alzheimer Data Bank (BNA).

Background: Because of insufficient data about their benefit-risk ratio in real life, drugs used for Alzheimer's disease (AD; cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine) were withdrawn from the list of reimbursable drugs in France on 1 August 2018.

Objectives: In this context, this study aimed to investigate the effects of the removal of AD drugs from the list of reimbursed drugs among patients followed in memory centres in France, in terms of prevalence and factors associated with drug discontinuation and evolution of disease management and cognition after drug discontinuation.

Methods: This is an observational study based on data from the National Alzheimer Data Bank ('Banque Nationale Alzheimer' [BNA]), which centralizes information about patients consulting in memory centres.

Do older adults know the purpose of their medications? A survey among community-dwelling people.

Purpose: This study assessed the level of knowledge among community-dwelling older individuals about the purpose of medications and the characteristics that influenced that knowledge. We focused on drugs frequently used and/or often involved in iatrogenic events.

Methods: This cross-sectional survey included 2690 community-dwelling older adults, aged 68 years and above, who reported using at least one drug of interest, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Potentially inappropriate prescription of antidepressants in old people: characteristics, associated factors, and impact on mortality.

Unlabelled: ABSTRACTBackground:The increasing use of antidepressants (ADs) has raised concerns about their inappropriate use in old people.

Objective: To examine the prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) of ADs, their associated factors, and their impact on mortality in a sample of old people in France.

Methods: The analysis used data from the SIPAF study, a cross-sectional study consisting of 2,350 people aged ≥ 70 years.