28 Mar 2012
| by Dr Bryan Palmer
monitored.
Treating moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease N Engl J Med 2012; 366: 893-903 Treating mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) with cholinesterase inhibitors is now a well ...
and the Alzheimer's Society, assigned 295 patients to one of the following regimens for 52 weeks: continue donepezil ...
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 ...
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 ...
Staying physically active may protect against dementia and general cognitive decline, a US study...and Alzheimer s disease. The researchers used wrist bands to track activity levels of 716 adults aged around 80 ...
years later. After four years, 71 patients had developed Alzheimer s disease. After adjusting for age ...
activities, such as cooking, washing the dishes and cleaning, are associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer ...
Study suggests scoring system could limit inappropriate use of antipsychotics for dementia patients....Antipsychotic prescribing for dementia should be reviewed as part of the QOF to slash ...
by the researchers could be added to the QOF dementia domain to boost standards, they said. The study found 26% of patients with dementia were prescribed antipsychotics despite high rates of vascular disease ...
The Alzheimer's disease drug memantine improves cognitive function, but does not reduce clinically...Agitation is common in patients with Alzheimer s disease and can significantly affect their quality of life and that of their carers.
Analysis of data from previous studies had suggested that memantine might reduce agitation, but this had not been studied in a prospective trial.
Dr Chris Fox from ...
Dementia services in the UK are so poor that some GPs doubt whether referring patients earlier...of services to which they can refer dementia patients. A GP investigation this month found that memory assessment centres, the first-line services in dementia care, are severely underfunded in parts of the UK ...
of dementia earlier is necessarily better. I understand those who don t see the benefit. Until we can offer ...
21 Feb 2012
| by Stephen Robinson
Researchers hope the technique can be used to predict the likelihood of developing diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Previous studies have developed live brain imaging for amyloid and tau proteins, implicated ...
accurate identification for patients who were at the highest risk of developing Alzheimer's disease ...
07 Mar 2012
| by Dr Suzanne Hunter
a healthy diet can be almost the same price as an unhealthy diet.
Flu vaccine with dementia Age Ageing 2012; 41: 64-9 This study looked at vaccine uptake in patients with dementia and in particular ...
with dementia had a higher uptake rate than patients without dementia in care homes (83.3 versus 80 ...
18 Apr 2012
| by Dr Louise Newson
that there is an increased risk of cardiovascular disease in elderly patients with dementia who receive antipsychotic medication.
This study looked at patients aged over 66 years with dementia who were receiving a ...
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However, we should be limiting our prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to dementia patients and instead use ...
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