Publications by authors named "Krizelle Fowler"
Article Synopsis
- Parental history of dementia, especially from the mother, significantly increases the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's disease in offspring.
- A study involving over 17,000 older adults showed that those with a maternal history of dementia had a notably higher odds ratio for dementia and Alzheimer's, while paternal history did not show the same association.
- These findings suggest that knowing a person's maternal history could help identify individuals at greater risk for Alzheimer's, potentially guiding risk stratification in clinical settings.
Using the Ophelia (Optimising Health Literacy and Access to Health Services) process as a practical tool for health promotion program delivery in various Philippine communities.
Health Promot J Austr
October 2023
Issue Addressed: The Ophelia (Optimising Health Literacy and Access to Health Services) process can be used as a practical tool for effective health promotion program delivery because of its multi-sector and pragmatic approach to designing health interventions. An initial case study showed how its first phase was successfully adapted in a pilot community in Leyte, Philippines. In this study, the three phases of the Ophelia process were implemented in Leyte, along with additional communities in Mindoro and Surigao.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: This study was aimed at validating the Filipino version of AD8 (AD8-P).
Methods: Community-dwelling Filipino older persons aged ≥60 years, together with their informants, participated in this study. Psychologists independently interviewed the informants with AD8-P and administered the Filipino-validated Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE-P) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-P) to the older persons.
In the midst of competing priorities and limited resources in low-middle-income countries (LMIC), convincing epidemiological evidence is critical for urging governments to develop national dementia plans. The majority of primary epidemiological studies on dementia are from high income countries (HIC). Implications for developing countries are typically extrapolated from these outcomes through modeling, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Filipino normative data for neuropsychological tests are lacking.
Objectives: This study aimed to determine the Filipino normative data for the Filipino Norming Project (FNP) Neuropsychological Battery, combining the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - Cognitive (ADAS-Cog) and the Neuropsychological Test Battery from the Uniform Dataset of Alzheimer's Disease Center (UDS-ADC).
Methods: We recruited participants 60 years and older with normal cognition (MMSE score of 25 and above and did not fulfill criteria for dementia according to DSM-IV criteria).