Background The detrimental impact of dementia upon patient health-related quality of life
(HRQL) is well established, as is the importance of improving HRQL. However, relatively …

Lack of insight or impaired awareness of deficits in patients with dementia is a relatively
neglected area of study. The aim of this study was to evaluate insight in a group of demented …

Objective Individuals suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD) often have impaired
awareness or a lack of insight into their cognitive deficits and functional abilities, especially …

Although the cognitive and psychiatric symptoms associated with Alzheimer disease have
received increasing attention over the past decade, the study of insight in this illness has …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate symptoms associated with impaired
insight in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). Background: Although unawareness of …

Objective Evidence suggests that people with dementia are able to respond accurately and
consistently to questions about quality of life (QoL), although large discrepancies exist …

Three direct measures of dementia insight were administered to 20 participants in a
longitudinal Alzheimer's disease (AD) rehabilitation research project 1 and to subsets of …

Introduction Poor insight about their cognitive and functional deficits is highly prevalent in
patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, there is a lack of reliable, valid …

This study follows previous work to determine the effect of patient insight and cognitive
impairment on the reliability and validity of self-reported quality of life (QOL) from patients …

Objectives. The nature of the association between the cognitive decline and quality of life
(QoL) during the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has not been studied in detail. We …