Engaging persons with dementia in advance care planning: Challenges and opportunities

T Sussman, R Pimienta, A Hayward - Dementia, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study reports findings from a series of focus groups with persons with dementia and
family caregivers intended to explore:(1) perceptions of and experiences with advance care …

Long-term mortality in a cohort of home-dwelling elderly with mild Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia

R Oesterhus, H Soennesyn, A Rongve… - Dementia and geriatric …, 2014 - karger.com
Objective: To study mortality in subjects with mild dementia in Norway with a special focus
on patients with Lewy body dementia (LBD) compared to Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

[HTML][HTML] Can dementia become the most prevalent disease at the time of death in Germany? Projections up to the year 2060 for the five most important diseases at the …

G Doblhammer, T Fritze, C Reinke, A Fink - Journal of Population Ageing, 2022 - Springer
Data on the burden of disease in the last years of life are an important basis for health policy
decisions and the allocation of health care resources. Since dementia is one of the most …

End of life care: The experiences of advance care planning amongst family caregivers of people with advanced dementia–A qualitative study

SE Ashton, B Roe, B Jack, B McClelland - Dementia, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Background End of life decisions for people with advanced dementia are reported as often
being difficult for families as they attempt to make appropriate and justified decisions. Aim To …

[HTML][HTML] Improving living and dying for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: a realist review of Namaste care and other multisensory interventions

F Bunn, J Lynch, C Goodman, R Sharpe, C Walshe… - Bmc Geriatrics, 2018 - Springer
Background Seventy percent of people with advanced dementia live and die in care homes.
Multisensory approaches, such as Namaste Care, have been developed to improve the …

Incidence, age at diagnosis and survival with dementia across ethnic groups in England: A longitudinal study using electronic health records

N Mukadam, L Marston, G Lewis… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction We investigated the incidence of diagnosed dementia and whether age at
diagnosis and survival afterward differs among the United Kingdom's three largest ethnic …

Fall-related hip fracture hospitalisations and the prevalence of dementia within older people in New South Wales, Australia: an analysis of linked data

JP Scandol, B Toson, JCT Close - Injury, 2013 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: Dementia and fall-related hip fractures both contribute significantly to the
burden of illness within elderly populations in Australia and elsewhere. The research …

The costeffectiveness of drug regulation: the example of thorough QT/QTc studies

JC Bouvy, MA Koopmanschap, RR Shah… - Clinical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We analyzed the costeffectiveness of the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH)
E14 guideline that requires a thorough QT/QTc (TQT) study for all drugs under development …

Cognitive and behavioural predictors of survival in Alzheimer disease: results from a sample of treated patients in a tertiaryreferral memory clinic

TC Russ, GD Batty, JM Starr - International journal of geriatric …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examined the influence of cognitive and noncognitive factors at the
time of diagnosis on the survival of patients with treated probable Alzheimer Disease (AD) …

Improving end-of-life care for people with dementia

EL Sampson, A Burns, M Richards - The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2011 - cambridge.org
One in three adults over the age of 60 years will die with dementia. Most will have complex
physical and psychological needs. Despite this, many people with dementia receive poor …