… status from elderly patients with questionable dementia as valid as self-reports from elderly
patients with minimal cognitive impairment? There are suggestions that elderly patients with …

… LAY AND MEDICAL COMMUNITIES have shown increasing interest in dementia in the elderly…
in hospitalized elderly patients 9' 23 and in patients with suspected dementia. Since half of …

… It is not difficult to see why the "psychogeriatric crisis" is so common; one reason is that
dementia heads the list of important conditions among elderly patients at home of which their …

… Dementia afflicts a substantial portion of elderly patients on the medical-surgical units of
general hospitals—in this study, 3.9% of the patients … population prevalence of dementia in east …

… Acutely ill elderly patients affected by dementia are more likely to die shortly after hospital
admission. Having dementia and adverse clinical events during hospital stay increases the …

… In one published series, 70 5% of elderly outpatients with suspected dementia had underlying
metabolic abnormalities (hypothyroidism [in 3%], hyperparathyroidism, hyponatremia, or …

… patients with a reversible dementia, and to screen for coexistent, treatable diseases that can
be difficult to diagnose in elderly patients … in our group of patients were thyroid function tests, …

… ished among elderly patients in institutions and the most marked correlates were a diagnosis
of … The aim of the study was thus to study quality of life among the elderly with dementia in …

… for diagnostic management of elderly outpatients with dementia. First, the very low prevalence
of reversible dementia – … metabolic causes of dementia are often not diagnosed clinically. …

… To provide additional diagnostic validity, the study design in¬ cluded a review of each patient
by a dementia diagnostic consensus group. The consensus group consisted of the internist …