Understanding diagnostic settings and carer experiences for dementia diagnosis in Australia.

Background: Australian guidelines advocate referral to comprehensive memory services for dementia diagnosis, but many patients may be diagnosed elsewhere.

Aims: To determine common settings for dementia diagnosis in Australia and to compare patient and carer experience between settings.

Methods: Exploratory cross-sectional study of patients with dementia admitted to a Melbourne sub-acute hospital.

Diagnosis of dementia in Australia: a narrative review of services and models of care.

Objective There is an impetus for the timely diagnosis of dementia to enable optimal management of patients, carers and government resources. This is of growing importance in the setting of a rising prevalence of dementia in an aging population. The Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines and Principles of Care for People with Dementia advocate referral to comprehensive memory services for dementia diagnosis, but in practice many patients may be diagnosed in other settings.

The Study of Neurocognitive Outcomes, Radiological and Retinal Effects of Aspirin in Sleep Apnoea- rationale and methodology of the SNORE-ASA study.

Purpose: Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is highly prevalent in older adults. Increasing evidence links SDB to the risk of dementia, mediated via a number of pathways, some of which may be attenuated by low-dose aspirin. This study will evaluate, in a healthy older cohort, the prospective relationship between SDB and cognitive function, changes in retinal and cerebral microvasculature, and determine whether low-dose aspirin ameliorates the effects of SDB on these outcomes over 3years.

Health perspectives: international epidemiology of ageing.

Populations globally are ageing, in part due to dramatic increases in life expectancies, forcing a reconsideration of what constitutes being "elderly" and "old." The proportion of older adults living with disability may be decreasing, yet older individuals are living with a significant burden of chronic disease, geriatric impairments in cognition, vision and hearing and reduced physiological reserve (frailty). Caring for a growing number of medically complex individuals has implications for medical workforce size and composition, health programmes and expenditure.

The efficacy and safety of alprazolam versus other benzodiazepines in the treatment of panic disorder.

We performed a meta-analysis of all single- or double-blind, randomized controlled trials comparing alprazolam to another benzodiazepine in the treatment of adult patients meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third or Fourth Edition, criteria for panic disorder or agoraphobia with panic attacks. Eight studies met inclusion criteria, describing a total of at least 631 randomized patients. In the pooled results, there were no significant differences in efficacy between alprazolam and the comparator benzodiazepines on any of the prespecified outcomes: improvement in mean panic attack frequency (between-arm weighted mean difference of 0.