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Designing a spoken dialogue interface to an intelligent cognitive assistant for people with dementia.

Health informatics journal

Wolters MK, Kelly F, Kilgour J.
PMID: 26276794
Health Informatics J. 2016 Dec;22(4):854-866. doi: 10.1177/1460458215593329. Epub 2015 Aug 14.

Intelligent cognitive assistants support people who need help performing everyday tasks by detecting when problems occur and providing tailored and context-sensitive assistance. Spoken dialogue interfaces allow users to interact with intelligent cognitive assistants while focusing on the task at...

Association between pain, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and physical function in dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BMC geriatrics

van Dalen-Kok AH, Pieper MJ, de Waal MW, Lukas A, Husebo BS, Achterberg WP.
PMID: 25928621
BMC Geriatr. 2015 Apr 19;15:49. doi: 10.1186/s12877-015-0048-6.

BACKGROUND: Pain, neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) and functional impairment are prevalent in patients with dementia and pain is hypothesized to be causal in both neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) and functional impairment. As the exact nature of the associations is unknown, this...

Apathy and dementia. Nosology, assessment and management.

The Journal of nervous and mental disease

Cipriani G, Lucetti C, Danti S, Nuti A.
PMID: 25265266
J Nerv Ment Dis. 2014 Oct;202(10):718-24. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000190.

Apathy, characterized by lack of motivation and loss of initiative, is a non-cognitive symptom that affects a high proportion, but not all, of patients with all forms of dementia. To explore the phenomenon of apathy in people with dementia,...

Non-pharmacological approaches to alleviate distress in dementia care.

Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)

Mitchell G, Agnelli J.
PMID: 26602678
Nurs Stand. 2015 Nov 25;30(13):38-44. doi: 10.7748/ns.30.13.38.s45.

Distress is one of the most common clinical manifestations associated with dementia. Pharmacological intervention may be appropriate in managing distress in some people. However, best practice guidelines advocate non-pharmacological interventions as the preferred first-line treatment. The use of non-pharmacological...

Intergenerational programs for persons with dementia: a scoping review.

Journal of gerontological social work

Galbraith B, Larkin H, Moorhouse A, Oomen T.
PMID: 25748444
J Gerontol Soc Work. 2015;58(4):357-78. doi: 10.1080/01634372.2015.1008166. Epub 2015 Mar 06.

Participation in intergenerational programs can have a positive impact on quality of life and well-being across age groups. We sought to examine the characteristics, goals, and outcomes of intergenerational programs for persons with dementia and children or youth. Six...

Malnutrition and dementia.

Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)

Wilhelm K.
PMID: 27406521
Nurs Stand. 2016 Jul 13;30(46):64-5. doi: 10.7748/ns.30.46.64.s48.

What was the nature of the CPD activity and/or practice-related feedback and/or event or experience in your practice? The CPD article outlined the effects dementia may have on a person's ability to eat and drink safely. It discussed assessment...

People who have dementia do not understand their actions' impact.

Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)

[No authors listed]
PMID: 27073959
Nurs Stand. 2016 Apr 13;30(33):32-3. doi: 10.7748/ns.30.33.32.s39.

No abstract available.

Depression versus dementia: is this construct still relevant?.

Neurodegenerative disease management

Ismail Z, Malick A, Smith EE, Schweizer T, Fischer C.
PMID: 24832029
Neurodegener Dis Manag. 2014;4(2):119-26. doi: 10.2217/nmt.14.5.

Cognitive impairment has long been identified as a component of late-life depression (LLD), and depressive symptoms are common in neurodegeneration. Depression may confer a greater risk of cognitive decline in a cognitively intact population and further cognitive decline in...

Non-memory led dementias: care in the time of covid-19.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Suárez-González A, Zimmermann N, Waddington C, Wood O, Harding E, Brotherhood E, Fox NC, Crutch SJ.
PMID: 32606068
BMJ. 2020 Jun 30;369:m2489. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2489.

No abstract available.

Neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia.

Handbook of clinical neurology

Radue R, Walaszek A, Asthana S.
PMID: 31753148
Handb Clin Neurol. 2019;167:437-454. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-804766-8.00024-8.

The prevalence of dementia is expected to rise with the aging of our population for decades to come. Neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia, also known as behavioral and psychologic symptoms of dementia, are extremely common. Symptoms are most prevalent in...

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