Coping with transitions in life: a four-year longitudinal narrative study of single younger people with dementia.

People with younger onset dementia (YOD <65 years) experience a great transformation of existential life. Living alone, they lack the support of a partner, and have a higher risk of moving into a residential care facility. To explore how people living alone with YOD experience and cope with transitions during the progression of dementia.

"To be, or not to be": experiencing deterioration among people with young-onset dementia living alone.

Having dementia before the age of 65 (YOD) represents a radical break from an age-normative and expected life course. The disease afflicts the person's identity, threatens the self-image and self-confidence, and erodes the person's plans. The aim of the study was toexamine how people living alone with YOD perceive the course of dementia, their needs, and coping strategies, with a focus on narrating everyday life experiences.

Determinants of quality of life in young onset dementia - results from a European multicenter assessment.

Background: Promoting adaptation, improving well-being and maintaining an optimal quality of life (QOL) is an important aspect in dementia care. The purpose of this study was to identify determinants of QOL in young onset dementia, and to assess differences in QoL domains between people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Methods: In total 135 persons with AD and 58 persons with FTD were included from two prospective cohort studies.

A shifting sense of being: a secondary analysis and comparison of two qualitative studies on young-onset dementia.

The aim of the present study was to investigate and interpret metaphorical expressions of the lived experiences of everyday life in people with young-onset dementia (YOD) and to compare these findings with findings from an analysis via grounded theory to see if the second analysis adds more knowledge to the topic. In this secondary analysis of data, metaphors from 20 Norwegian men and women living with YOD were investigated. Using Steger's anthropological three-step method, three categories were identified: Sliding away, leaving traces, and all alone in the world.

Nobody asked me how I felt: experiences of adult children of persons with young-onset dementia.

Background: There are few studies of young persons (<65 years old) with dementia, and the situation of their children has been a neglected research field. The aim is explore how adult children of a parent with young-onset dementia have experienced the development of their parents' dementia and what needs they have for assistance.

Method: Qualitative interviews with 14 informants (aged 20-37 years; 12 daughters, 2 sons) during 2011 were conducted and analyzed thematically.

Assessment of dementia by a primary health care dementia team cooperating with the family doctor - the Norwegian model.

Background: To describe how dementia assessment could be organized in primary health care and how it works.

Methods: The project had two phases. In phase one 104 elderly patients were assessed by a local authority dementia team that used a standardized examination protocol, which enabled the family doctors to establish a dementia diagnosis.

[Early onset dementia].

Background: It is estimated that 1,200 people under the age of 65 have been diagnosed with dementia in Norway. This article provides an overview of the types of dementia frequently seen in younger patients.

Material And Methods: The article is based on a non-systematic search in PubMed, as well as the authors' own clinical and research experience.

Support to family carers of patients with frontotemporal dementia.

Objectives: To examine the provision of support to patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and their family carers compared with patients with early onset Alzheimer's dementia (AD) and their carers, and the carers' satisfaction with the support.

Method: Data came from 60 dyads of patients with dementia and their principal family carers, 23 subjects with frontotemporal dementia and their 23 carers, and 37 subjects with early onset Alzheimer's disease and their 37 carers.

Results: Patients with a frontotemporal dementia diagnosis were significantly more frequently offered stays in nursing homes (p = 0.

Validation of the Seven Minute Screen and Syndrom Kurztest among elderly Norwegian outpatients.

Background: Brief cognitive tests represent a first step in the assessment of elderly people referred to outpatient clinics because of cognitive impairment. The aim of this study is to determine sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratio for a positive result (LR+) for the brief cognitive tests Seven Minute Screen (7MS) and Syndrom Kurztest (SKT) in an outpatient sample of elderly patients with no dementia or mild dementia.

Methods: Ninety-five patients aged 65 years or more from 10 Norwegian geriatric and psychogeriatric outpatient clinics were included in the study.

Frontotemporal dementia: a clinically complex diagnosis.

Objective: To compare the time taken to establish a clinical diagnosis of Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) relative to a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's dementia (AD).

Methods: The data came from 89 patients under the age of 65 years, 52 of whom met the Manchester-Lund criteria for Frontotemporal dementia; 20 of these came from Lund University Hospital in Sweden. The other 32 patients with FTD along with 37 subjects who fulfilled the ICD-10 criteria for early onset Alzheimer's disease were recruited from four memory clinics and two neurology departments in Norway.