Publications by authors named "Joseph Husbands"
Background: Dementia patients frequently depend on caregivers. Agitation is a common behavioral dementia symptom particularly burdensome to patients and caregivers.
Objective: To assess the association of agitation severity with non-professional caregiver hours, burden, health status, and productivity.
Background: At least 90%of patients with dementia experience behavioral or neuropsychiatric symptoms including agitation, psychotic symptoms, apathy, depression, and sleep disturbances. Agitation has been reported to be experienced by 60%of patients with mild cognitive impairment and 76%of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Objective: We aimed to assess the impact of agitation in patients with dementia on healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and healthcare costs.
Background: Dementia is commonly accompanied by neurobehavioral symptoms; however, the relationship between such symptoms and health-related outcomes is unclear.
Objective: To investigate the impact of specific neurobehavioral symptoms in dementia on healthcare resource use (HCRU), patient quality of life (QoL), and caregiver burden.
Methods: Data were taken from the 2015/16 Adelphi Real World Dementia Disease Specific Programme™, a point-in-time survey of physicians and their consulting dementia patients.
Objectives: Rapid diagnosis of dementia is essential to ensure optimum patient care. This study used real-world data to quantify the dementia diagnostic pathway in Australia.
Design: A real-world, cross-sectional survey of physicians and patients.
Objective: This study aimed to quantify the diagnostic pathway from cognitive impairment (CI) to dementia in Japan.
Methods: This was a real-world, cross-sectional survey of patients with CI and their physicians.
Results: Data for 1107 patients were provided by 106 physicians.