Publications by authors named "E Salvatore"
Technological interventions in European dementia care: a systematic review of acceptance and attitudes among people living with dementia, caregivers, and healthcare workers.
Michele Sorrentino Claudio Fiorilla Michelangelo Mercogliano Federica Esposito Irene Stilo Elena Salvatore
Front Neurol
October 2024
Background: Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative forms of dementia affect 8 million Europeans. Assistive technologies are suggested to reduce the burden of care and improve the quality of life of person living with dementia. Nonetheless, the acceptance and attitudes toward technological interventions pose challenges not only for people living with dementia and caregivers but also for healthcare workers.
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- Visuospatial deficits in Huntington's disease (HD) have been studied primarily in terms of visuomotor integration, while visuo-constructive abilities have received less attention, prompting this study to explore those abilities qualitatively in comparison to Alzheimer's disease (AD).
- The study included 41 HD participants, 25 with AD, and 35 healthy controls, who performed tasks like the Constructional Apraxia Test and the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test, revealing no significant quantitative differences in performance between the two patient groups.
- Distinct qualitative error patterns were found, with AD participants showing more simplifications in their drawings and HD participants exhibiting more distortions, highlighting the importance of qualitative analysis in understanding cognitive effects of neurological
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- - This paper introduces VOC-ALS, a new database of voice recordings from 153 participants, including 102 ALS patients and 51 healthy controls, aimed at studying voice signals affected by ALS.
- - The recordings were made using a smartphone app during various speech tasks, such as vowel phonation and syllable repetition, allowing researchers to gather significant data on voice characteristics.
- - Metrics like harmonics-to-noise ratio and frequency variations were analyzed, showing potential for these measures to effectively identify ALS patients and assess the severity of their speech difficulties.
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- The study aimed to estimate the prevalence and incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the Campania region of South Italy, using healthcare data from 2015 to 2020.
- Researchers analyzed data from individuals aged 65 and older and found that 80,392 had dementia, with a prevalence rate of 77.64 per 1,000 for any dementia and 34.05 per 1,000 for AD.
- The incidence rates were 82.10 cases of dementia and 59.89 cases of AD per 100,000 people annually, and the performance of their algorithms for detecting dementia was validated against clinical tests with good sensitivity and specificity.