An intergenerational programme delays health impairment in nursing home residents: the Duplo project.

Purpose: To analyse whether an intergenerational programme in which students interacted with institutionalised older persons had any impact on the older persons' functional status.

Methods: Each academic year, a group of older adults living in nursing homes were divided into two arms. For the next four months, the first group received daily visits from a group of students during which they followed a pre-established activity plan, whilst the other arm proceeded with their normal activity.

Cerebral Microbleeds in Advanced Dementia: Clinical and Pathological Correlates.

Objective: We conducted a longitudinal study to explore the clinical and pathological correlates of cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) in institutionalized patients with dementia.

Methods: Clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data were extracted from 182 nursing home patients (mean age [standard deviation]: 81.3 [6.

Motor effects of radio electric asymmetric conveyer in Alzheimer's disease: results from a cross-over trial.

We conducted a randomized, cross-over trial to investigate the feasibility, safety, and motor effects of brain stimulation with radio electric asymmetric conveyer (REAC) technique in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Neuropostural optimization (NPO) and sham protocol were administered to 60 patients from the nursing home and day care units of the Alzheimer Center Reina Sofía Foundation. The mean age was 84.

Pattern of and risk factors for brain microbleeds in neurodegenerative dementia.

Objective: A cross-sectional study was conducted to describe the prevalence, locations, and risk factors for brain microbleeds (BMBs) in neurodegenerative dementia.

Methods: The database of the Alzheimer Center Reina Sofía Foundation was searched, BMBs were described, and the potential associations of BMBs were investigated using univariate statistics.

Results: A total of 148 patients (age 81.