BACKGROUND: Assessment of activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs (iADLs) is key to determining the severity of dementia and care needs among older adults. However, such information is often only documented in free-text clinical notes...
BACKGROUND: The most common degenerative condition in older adults is dementia, which can be predicted using a number of indicators and whose progression can be slowed down. One of the indicators of an increased risk of dementia is sleep disturbances...
Emotional and mood disturbances are common in people with dementia. Non-pharmacological interventions are beneficial for managing these disturbances. However, effectively applying these interventions, particularly in the person-centred approach, is a...
International journal of language & communication disorders
Nov 16, 2023
BACKGROUND: Dementia is a cognitive decline that leads to the progressive deterioration of an individual's ability to perform daily activities independently. As a result, a considerable amount of time and resources are spent on caretaking. Early dete...
Geriatrics & gerontology international
Nov 2, 2023
The recent evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered life-changing. In particular, there is great interest in emerging hot topics in AI such as image classification and natural language processing. Our world has been revolutionized ...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Oct 14, 2023
This paper analyzes diverse features extracted from spoken language to select the most discriminative ones for dementia detection. We present a two-step feature selection (FS) approach: Step 1 utilizes filter methods to pre-screen features, and Step ...
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Oct 14, 2023
INTRODUCTION: A wide range of modifiable risk factors for dementia have been identified. Considerable debate remains about these risk factors, possible interactions between them or with genetic risk, and causality, and how they can help in clinical t...
Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that burdens the person living with the disease, their families, and medical and social services. Timely diagnosis of dementia could be followed by introducing interventions that may slow down its p...
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Aug 28, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) approaches are increasingly being used in dementia research. However, several methodological challenges exist that may limit the insights we can obtain from high-dimensional data and our ability ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Aug 28, 2023
BACKGROUND: Early identification of dementia is crucial for prompt intervention for high-risk individuals in the general population. External validation studies on prognostic models for dementia have highlighted the need for updated models. The use o...
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