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neuropathology of mild cognitive impairment in the elderly

Tài liệu Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly – Recognition, Diagnosis and Management docx

Tài liệu Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly – Recognition, Diagnosis and Management docx

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... (NPH) Urinary incontinence: If urinary and gait problems occur early in the course of cognitive impairment, consider NPH Impaired instrumental activities of daily living: A prerequisite for the ... affecting their daily living • In cases where there is a suspicion of cognitive impairment or concern about the patient’s cognitive status, and the SMMSE score is in the “normal range” (24-30), the ... not attend a physician, those members of the public can be told to notify the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles of their concerns Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly – Recognition, Diagnosis and...
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Screening for Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly pot

Screening for Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly pot

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... Screening for Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly Prepared by Christopher Patterson, MD, FRCPC1 Cognitive impairment is a common finding in older people, as the prevalence of dementia increases ... screening for cognitive impairment in 1989. Conclusions and Recommendations Despite the theoretical advantages of identifying individuals with cognitive impairment, there is no evidence to indicate ... to examine the results of screening and subsequent investigations In a three-phase study in Eastern Baltimore, Md, 78% of 3,481 subjects completed the National Institute of Mental Health Interview...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Vaginal treatment of endometrial cancer: role in the elderly" doc

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... morbidities These results show how vaginal approach had a similar outcome in selected patients We compared the clinical outcome of the vaginal versus the abdominal hysterectomy in a population of elderly ... morbidity [8] Nevertheless, these procedures could be often severely contra-indicated in endometrial cancer patient, since they require a general anesthesia, which is contra-indicated in endometrial ... hysterectomy in place of the standard abdominal procedure Comparing this approach to the traditional procedure used in a control group, we got evidences of high-cure rate achieved in elderly patients...
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Cognitive effects of acute tryptophan depletion in the healthy elderly potx

Cognitive effects of acute tryptophan depletion in the healthy elderly potx

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... Depletion minus placebo score great as that seen in the males receiving the lower dose drink In SMTS, the reduction in the females receiving the higher dose was not as great as the increase in the females ... to examine the effects of ATD on a range of cognitive functions in a large group of healthy elderly participants The principal findings of this analysis are as follows: (a) There was an interaction ... exception of the placebo drink, which in the 100 g strength contained an additional 2.3 g of L-TRP The composition of the 100 g drink as described by Young (14) was: L-alanine 5.5 g, L-arginine 4.9...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Clinical usefulness of the screen for cognitive impairment in psychiatry (SCIP-S) scale in patients with type I bipolar disorder" doc

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... representing the difference between mean scores at V2 and baseline divided by the standard deviation of the baseline visit The validity of the SCIP for a quantification of cognitive impairment in bipolar ... The construct validity of the SCIP for detection of cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder was supported by the extraction of a single significant factor, namely cognitive impairment, and the ... and the time required to complete the SCIP The reliability of the SCIP was assessed by examination of alternate form equivalence, the test-retest reliability, the internal consistency within the...
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Tài liệu Manifestations of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Elderly: A Prospective Observational Study from North India pptx

Tài liệu Manifestations of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Elderly: A Prospective Observational Study from North India pptx

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... symptoms in elderly patients with TB This results in a delay in the presentation of the elderly to health care facilities, thereby resulting in a delay in the commencement of ATT The delay in presentation ... hence must be kept in mind during the diagnostic evaluation of elderly patients.11 Several findings of the current study are in accordance with the results of this meta-analysis In the present study, ... the groups DISCUSSION Tuberculosis is becoming increasingly common in the elderly and burden of the disease in them is likely to continue to increase substantially.3,4 Moreover, with increasing...
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Trajectory Patterns of Self-Rated Health among the Elderly in Taiwan: A Comparison across Ethnicity pptx

Trajectory Patterns of Self-Rated Health among the Elderly in Taiwan: A Comparison across Ethnicity pptx

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... 1988) In a society where informal care provided by families accounts for most of the care burden, support for the old often takes the form of living together Another included indicator of social ... distance, managing money, and using the phone) measuring both the difficulties of activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) Again, relatively few of these community-dwelling ... groups of elders in Taiwan: the native Taiwanese1 and the Mainlanders (immigrants who moved from China's mainland to Taiwan around 1949 in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War) over the 11-year...
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PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION OF MISSING TEETH AND ORAL HEALTH IN THE ELDERLY pptx

PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION OF MISSING TEETH AND ORAL HEALTH IN THE ELDERLY pptx

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... that storing the disks in open air caused a loss of viability and death of Candida albicans Rinsing the dentures in the evening and keeping them overnight in the open air can indeed be the easiest ... been the most fundamental etiological factor for the dramatic increase in caries among the Finnish children in the beginning of the 1950's (Rytömaa et al., 1980) Not surprisingly, increase in the ... ranged from 58% of the newest denture group to 21% in the oldest dentures The worsening of the stability with the increasing age of the denture was statistically highly significant in the maxilla...
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Prevention of falls in the elderly living at home pdf

Prevention of falls in the elderly living at home pdf

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... health of the elderly, thus extending the period of physical autonomy, and retarding the onset of the effects of aging The fact that the majority of elderly people are currently living in their own ... important factor in the decline of autonomy Indeed, the fear of falling can result in changes in motor function in the elderly, for example in walking behavior (Maki, 1997) The elderly frequently ... Multiple factors are involved in the risk of falling These factors may be intrinsic to the person and the aging process, behavioral, or found in the person’s immediate environment The main risk factors...
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Health Council of the Netherlands Undernutrition in the elderly pdf

Health Council of the Netherlands Undernutrition in the elderly pdf

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... the differences in the numbers of elderly people in the different care settings, the LPZ results that concern data from all participating elderly people are dominated by the findings in nursing ... overview of the prevalence estimates To gain insight into the effect of the differences in the criteria on the prevalence data, both definitions are applied to the LPZ data The LASA result for the independently-living ... on the subject each define in their own way what undernutrition is The definition chosen of course affects the results of the study This is also the case in the Dutch investigations into the...
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Compression of morbidity in the elderly pot

Compression of morbidity in the elderly pot

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... Similar declines occur in other organ systems What would be the full range of e€ects if declines in the immune and in ammatory systems were prevented or reversed in the setting of declines in other ... of death shifts from external towards intrinsic factors The formally assigned ``cause of death'' becomes increasingly irrelevant compared with the underlying frailty, the inability of the aging ... as shown in the second line of the ®gure If postponement of the age of onset of morbidity predominates, then morbidity is compressed and the average illness burden is less, the period of adult...
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Management of Bipolar Disease in the Elderly ppt

Management of Bipolar Disease in the Elderly ppt

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... illness Evaluation of Function Functional assessment Activities of daily living Feeding, Bathing, Dressing, Transferring, Toileting Instrumental activities of daily living Finances, Telephone, ... therapy Individual psychotherapy Supportive psychotherapy Cognitive behavioral therapy Group therapy Family therapy Caregiver support group therapy Treatment Evidence-based research minimal Elderly ... Phillipe Pinel, physician 1806 Citizen Pinel Orders Removal of the Chains of the Mad at the Salpêtriére Tony Robert-Fleury (1838–1911) 1876 painting Resources American Association of Geriatric...
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Epidemiology of hypertension in the elderly pptx

Epidemiology of hypertension in the elderly pptx

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... Based on the Hellenic Society for the Study of Hypertension guidelines (2008) the aim of the screening of blood pressure in the hypertensive subjects under 65 years old is to maintain the blood ... disease in the developed countries, whereas in some of these countries it occurs in the 20-30% of the adult population Arterial hypertension is highly prevalent in the Epidemiology of hypertension in ... conducted in the special infrastructures for the protection of the elderly in Greece, it has been reported that 72.9% of the males and 77.1% of females had high blood pressure 15, nevertheless,...
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Update on the management of constipation in the elderly: new treatment options doc

Update on the management of constipation in the elderly: new treatment options doc

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... also observed in the subgroup of 28 elderly patients Despite efforts in including the elderly in RCTs, most ­ tudies on the use of laxatives in the elderly are s limited because of small sample ... ­ paring of neuronal nitric oxide in human colon.20 These fi ­ ndings suggest an increase in inhibitory neurons in the aging colon, affecting gut motility However, the ­ ignificance of s these ... straightening the anorectal angle Simultaneously, the voluntary efforts of bearing down increases the intra-abdominal pressure, facilitating the development of a stripping wave, resulting in stool...
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Positive modulation of cognition and mood in the healthy elderly volunteer following the administration of Centella asiatica ppt

Positive modulation of cognition and mood in the healthy elderly volunteer following the administration of Centella asiatica ppt

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... four of its nine windows lit The participant was instructed to memorize the position of the illuminated windows In 36 subsequent presentations of the house, one of the windows was illuminated ... Discussion The present study investigated the effect of Centella asiatica extract on the cognitive performance and mood in the elderly The results from this study suggest that the ingestion of single ... occur via the modulation of dopamine and norepinephrine in prefrontal cortex together with the modulation of acetylcholine and serotonin in hippocampus However, the possible underlying mechanisms...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Fall prevention and vitamin D in the elderly: an overview of the key role of the non-bone effects" docx

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... that the specificity of the mechanism of falls in the elderly, particularly the impairment of postural reactions - either altered or delayed - could partly explain the higher incidence of hip ... related to vitamin D insufficiency - and cognitive decline Although the hypothesis of a simple temporal relationship is possible in this study, the hypothesis of an action of vitamin D on cognitive ... Experimentally, in animals, vitamin D is involved in neurophysiology and regulates the metabolism of neurotransmitters including dopamine, acetylcholine, serotonin and gamma aminobutyric acid [70,78], and the...
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báo cáo hóa học: "Quantitative gait analysis under dual-task in older people with mild cognitive impairment: a reliability study" doc

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... activation of fronto-parietal networks by incrementing demand in a working memory task Cereb Cortex 1997, 7:465-471 Klingberg T: Limitations in information processing in the human brain: neuroimaging of ... parameters were recorded using only the footprint of the participants, thereby eliminating the need for external sensors attached to the body or lower limbs that may interfere with the gait performance ... current research of cognitive decline, falls, and dementia [29-31], our results are of particular relevance since the presence of cognitive impairment in our population did The ICCs for the six variables...
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báo cáo hóa học: " A comparative study on approximate entropy measure and poincaré plot indexes of minimum foot clearance variability in the elderly during walking" pptx

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... corresponding Poincaré plot (D) pendicular to the line -of- identity reflects the level of short-term variability [12] The dispersion of points along the line -of- identity is thought to indicate the level ... in the falls risk elderly group supports our previous findings [4] which showed that increasing the MFC height is one of the possible strategies used by elderly individuals to minimize tripping ... values The value of ApEn reflecting the degree of irregularity, randomness and complexity of the MFC time series data, could therefore, indicate the degree of stability in the control of foot...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Medication quality and quality of life in the elderly, a cohort study" doc

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... of pharmacological possibilities the debate regarding prescribing ought to be as prominent as ever Concerning the elderly patient there must be a crusade finding the breaking point were the intention ... participated in the statistical analysis and the drafting of the manuscript PE participated in the design of the study and the drafting of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... 3Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, SE- 581 83 Linköping, Sweden Authors’ contributions INO participated in the design of the study, the statistical analysis and the drafting of the...
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