Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the ALBA screening instrument for Lewy body dementia in older adults.

ALBA screening instrument (ASI) has been demonstrated to be an effective, cheap, and noninvasive clinical instrument to screen for Lewy body dementia (LBD). We aimed to determine the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of ASI (ASI-T) in patients with LBD and to investigate the discriminative power of the test in patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD), LBD, and cognitively healthy older adults (controls). 172 older adults over 60 years of age (43 with LBD, 41 AD, and 88 controls) were included.

Sarcopenia is as common in older patients with dementia with Lewy bodies as it is in those with Alzheimer's disease.

Aim: Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy body (DLB) constitute the most common types of dementia, and are two common geriatric syndromes; however, sarcopenia has not been elaborately evaluated in DLB so far. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between sarcopenia and DLB in older adults.

Methods: In this retrospective and cross-sectional study, 662 participants, who were followed in a memory clinic at the Geriatrics department of a university hospital, were included.