09 Jun 2011
| by Stephen Robinson
GPs have been urged to review all patients with dementia taking antipsychotic drugs to reduce...The Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), a group of 50 organisations including the RCGP, the Alzheimer ...
Executive of Alzheimer s Society, said: 'It is unacceptable that more than 100,000 people with dementia ...
-thirds by November 2011.
The pledge supported the five-year National Dementia Strategy, which aims to improve ...
GP-led dementia screening could boost diagnosis rates threefold, research suggests, prompting calls...-quarters of those who failed the tests were later diagnosed with dementia. Alz heimer s UK has called for further ...
that there was little evidence that screening for Alzheimer s would reduce mortality or morbidity.
Researchers from ...
evaluation, 93% had cognitive impairment and 75% had dementia.
Across all patients undergoing screening ...
06 Oct 2011
| by Tom Moberly
Dementia risk could be predicted by asking people to rate their own health, a French research study....
The researchers found that Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia were both associated with poor self ...
of 6.7 years later and 618 were found to have developed dementia.
Compared with those who rated their health as good, those rating their health as poor had a 70 per cent higher risk of developing dementia ...
Charities are hopeful a much-delayed review will end reliance on drugs to treat dementia. Sanjay...of the Alzheimer's Society, says equipping staff to provide non-pharmacological approaches, as NICE dementia ...
Last month, Alzheimer's charities called on the government to release its long-awaited review into the use of antipsychotics in dementia care. They hope the review will end the widespread use ...
24 Apr 2009
NSAIDs may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease, rather than reducing the risk of it developing...and whether or not they developed dementia or Alzheimer's disease. A total of 458 participants were heavy ...
use of NSAIDs was associated with a 66 per cent increased risk of developing dementia and a 57 per cent increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, the researchers found. Previous studies have suggested ...
Memory services crucial to cutting the billion-pound burden of dementia on the NHS are being...here for the full GP investigation results
As part of the 2009 National Dementia Strategy ...
financial data for 2011/12, spending for each person with dementia varied 21-fold. NHS Barnsley spent 802 per person with dementia, compared with just 38 in NHS Nottinghamshire County. Patient access ...
Spouses of dementia sufferers are six times more likely to develop the condition themselves...with dementia. Compared with subjects whose spouse did not develop dementia, those married to individuals with dementia had a six times increased risk of developing dementia. What might explain the link? The stress of looking after those with dementia may in part explain the risk, the researchers believe. 'The chronic ...
22 Oct 2008
GP survey reveals widespread cuts to dementia services...One in four PCTs has closed or reduced dementia services in the past three years, and less than ...
of PCTs 98 per cent stating that dementia care is one of their main priorities. The findings were ...
. They coincide with a WHO report on mental health, published earlier this month, which found that dementia care ...
09 Jun 2006
| by Rachel Liddle
The NICE technology appraisal on drugs for Alzheimer's disease will create an ethical dilemma...) and rivastigmine (Exelon) only be used in newly diagnosed patients who have moderately severe Alzheimer s disease (GP, 2 June 2006). Professor Clive Ballard, director of research at the Alzheimer s Society, warned ...
with mild Alzheimer s, while denying them effective treatment. GPs will have to deal with the day ...
07 Apr 2011
| by Dr Louise Newson
for dementia....for atypical antipsychotics in dementia patients have emerged in recent years. There is a threefold increase ...
-32 ).
The DART-AD trial was the first long-term follow-up study to show that patients with Alzheimer's disease ...
adverse events and death associated with antipsychotic use in dementia patients, one article has ...
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