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Dementia Care Research and Psychosocial Factors.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Background: Increasing evidence points to the possible risk roles of psychosocial factors (lack of education, active social participation, physical exercise and mentally stimulating activity, economic instability, traumatic life events) in the pathogenic process and clinical manifestation of dementia disorders. In recent years in our country, in the context of a complex inflationary process, there has been an increase in all indicators of vulnerability and poverty, exceeding 40% of the population below the poverty line in 2023 and around 9% below the indigence line.
Method: In the context of International Alzheimer's Day, the Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Week was held at the Hospital de Clínicas of Buenos Aires.
Dementia Care Research and Psychosocial Factors.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Background: Medical history and healthcare utilization in preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) are not well characterized and may reveal indicators associated with asymptomatic stages of AD.
Methods: This retrospective observational study compared 246 Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic AD study (A4) individuals who met elevated brain amyloid eligibility criteria to 121 individuals in the companion Longitudinal Evaluation of Amyloid Risk and Neurodegeneration study (LEARN) who were eligible for A4 except did not meet elevated amyloid eligibility criteria. Matched-controls for A4/LEARN, using a 3:1 match of demographics, Medicare enrollment month, and frailty status, were randomly selected from Medicare beneficiaries without cognitive impairment/dementia claims.
Dementia Care Research and Psychosocial Factors.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Prevent Alzheimer's Disease 2020, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA.
Background: With the changing care landscape for early Alzheimer's disease (AD), optimizing the diagnostic and management process is key. This study assessed the correlation between patient and physician characteristics and outcomes related to the diagnosis, referral, and treatment process for early AD in community-based settings.
Method: This cross-sectional study conducted between August and September 2023 abstracted medical chart data for patients aged 50-89 years who were diagnosed with early AD (mild cognitive impairment [MCI] or mild AD) within the past 2 years and had a clinic visit within the past year.
Dementia Care Practice.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Odessa National Maritime University, Odessa, Ukraine.
Background: Patients with Alzheimer's disease due to the peculiarities of this disease do not report constipation.
Method: In a study of 11 women with Alzheimer's disease, aged 70-75 years, we found that all of them had a tendency towards constipation. We divided the patients into two groups: a control group of 6 women who received help when they complained of constipation symptoms and an experimental group of 5 female patients who were routinely assessed by caregivers on their fecal status using the Bristol Scale.
Dementia Care Practice.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Athens Alzheimer Association, Athens, Attica, Greece.
There are 160.000 people living with dementia and 280.000 with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) in Greece.
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