ABSTRACT. An estimated 61% of the 24.3 million people diagnosed with dementia worldwide live in underdeveloped countries, including Brazil, where a public healthcare system covers the majority of the population. This care is usually provided by General Practitioners (GP) and in Brazil many doctors recent...
Dementia is an important public health problem due to the complex challenges it poses during the progression of the disease and especially during its end-of-life stage. The aim of this article is to consider the issues that arise from the use of commonly administered therapies in patients with severe dem...
Resumo: O envelhecimento populacional ocasionou aumento da dependência e da sobrecarga de cuidadores familiares de idosos dependentes. O objetivo foi verificar, entre cuidadores familiares, a prevalência de sobrecarga e os fatores associados a ela em uma região pobre e violenta do Rio de Janeiro, Bras...
A pesar de la importancia de las percepciones familiares en el análisis de la atención en residencias de mayores, apenas se han indagado estos ascpetcos. El objetivo de este estudio es conocer las preferencias y las áreas de mejora percibidas por los familiares sobre los cuidados a personas con demenc...
La demencia es la pérdida de varias áreas del funcionamiento cognitivo respecto al nivel premórbido, con deterioro significativo en la funcionalidad. La más común es ocasionada por la enfermedad de Alzheimer, que se define como un trastorno neurodegenerativo que produce una alteración progresiva de...
Objective.This work evaluated nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward individuals with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Methodology. This was a transversal, descriptive study carried out with a randomly selected group of nursing students (N = 122) from Bangalore, India, in 2013. The study used ...
Introduction: There is growing recognition of early onset dementia (EOD) as a significant clinical and social problem because of its effects on physical and mental health of people with dementia (PWD) and their caregivers. Objective: To analyze the psychosocial impact of EOD in family caregivers. Methods...
