A cross-sectional, observational study of nutritional status and eating behaviours in people living with dementia in acute care settings.

Aims And Objectives: To understand the nutritional status, observing eating difficulties during mealtimes for people living with dementia in acute care settings.

Background: Changed eating behaviours caused by declining cognitive function is common in people living with dementia which can lead to malnutrition. Malnutrition is associated with prolonged hospitalisation and increased mortality.

Identifying subtle functional change in individuals with mild cognitive impairment: development and validation of the Healthy Brain Ageing - Functional Assessment Questionnaire.

Accumulating research suggests that individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) experience subtle functional changes, but that available functional assessment tools are insensitive to this. To address this gap, we describe the development and validation of the self-report, "Healthy Brain Ageing Functional Assessment Questionnaire" (HBA-FAQ). We examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the HBA-FAQ in 503 participants with normal cognition, subjective cognitive decline (SCD), MCI or dementia.

Altered heart rate variability during sleep in mild cognitive impairment.

Study Objectives: Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction, as measured by short-term diurnal heart rate variability (HRV), has been reported in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, it is unclear whether this impairment also exists during sleep in this group. We, therefore, compared overnight HRV during sleep in older adults with MCI and those with subjective cognitive impairment (SCI).

Memory Compensation Strategies in Older People with Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Objectives: With the rapid growth of the older population worldwide, understanding how older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) use memory strategies to mitigate cognitive decline is important. This study investigates differences between amnestic and nonamnestic MCI subtypes in memory strategy use in daily life, and how factors associated with cognition, general health, and psychological well-being might relate to strategy use.

Methods: One hundred forty-eight participants with MCI (mean age = 67.