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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, DF, Mexico.
Background: The World Health Organization forecasts a population of 2,000 million people over 60 years by the year 2050, with 7% of this population suffering from dementia. Making a constant clinical-technological evaluation of older adults allows early detection of the disease and provides a better quality of life for the patient. In this sense, the research and development of innovative technological systems for the early detection of the disease, its monitoring and management of the growing number of patients with cognitive diseases has increased in recent years, integrating data collection and its automatic processing based on geriatric metrics into these systems using artificial intelligence (AI) methods.
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December 2024
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South).
Background: Long-term care hospitals are the main healthcare setting for the growing population with dementia in South Korea. Despite various deficiencies (e.g.
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December 2024
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Background: Little is known about the prevalence and nature of role-sharing among family care partners and paid caregivers.
Method: We studied 440 participants in the 2015 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) receiving paid help with self-care, mobility, or medical care. Guided by Litwak's task specificity model, we focus on frequency of receiving paid help only, help from care partners only, and role-sharing by task.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Background: African Americans (AA) are underrepresented in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain donation research, making up approximately 2% of brain donations to the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC). Focus groups were conducted to obtain qualitative information to expand upon survey data that was collected previously to gain additional insights into the attitudes of Black∖AA individuals toward brain donation and perceptions of medical research.
Method: A brain donation focus group facilitator guide was created based upon earlier survey findings.
Background: In the United States, Latino older adults are 1.5x more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than non-Latino White older adults. Latino Family Caregivers (LFC) maintain home care for longer periods of time but use formal care less.
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