Publications by authors named "Bartley Sheehan"
Article Synopsis
- The study compared the costs of caring for people with dementia at home versus in residential care in central England.
- Data was collected from a group of dementia patients during their hospital stays and followed up over a year, analyzing care costs and carer stress.
- Findings indicated that residential care tended to be more expensive, but when factoring in informal care, costs were similar; however, carer stress significantly decreased after moving patients to care homes.
Background: Depression is common in residents of Residential and Nursing homes (RNHs). It is usually undetected and often undertreated. Depression is associated with poor outcomes including increased morbidity and mortality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevious studies suggest that visual enumeration is spared in normal aging but impaired in abnormal aging (late stage Alzheimer's disease, AD), raising the task's potential as a marker of dementia. Experiment 1 compared speeded enumeration of 1-9 random dots in early stage AD, vascular dementia (VAD), depression, and age-matched controls. Previous deficits were replicated but they were not specific to AD, with the rate of counting larger numerosities similarly slowed relative to controls by both AD and VAD.
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