Alzheimer Disease - Rehabilitation
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Persons with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease use verbal-instruction technology to manage daily activities: effects on performance and mood.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To extend the evaluation of verbal-instruction technology for helping persons with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease recapture daily activities and improve their mood. METHODS: Two studies targeted two activities (i.e. snack ... Read more...

Patients with Alzheimer's disease use metamemory to attenuate the Jacoby-Whitehouse illusion.

21 May 2009 Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) relying predominantly on familiarity for recognition, research has suggested that they may be particularly susceptible to memory illusions driven by conceptual fluency. Using the Jacoby and Whitehouse [Jacoby, ... Read more...

Dying of boredom: an exploratory case study of time use, apparent affect, and routine activity situations on two Alzheimer's special care units.

29 Apr 2009 The objective of this instrumental case study was to explore interrelationships among routine activity situations on 2 Alzheimer's special care units (SCUs) and 2 resident quality-of-life (QoL) indicators: daily time use and emotional well-being. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alzheimer Disease - Rehabilitation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Persons with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease use verbal-instruction technology to manage daily activities: effects on performance and mood. 29 Sep 2009
• Patients with Alzheimer's disease use metamemory to attenuate the Jacoby-Whitehouse illusion. 21 May 2009
• Dying of boredom: an exploratory case study of time use, apparent affect, and routine activity situations on two Alzheimer's special care units. 29 Apr 2009
• Test-retest reliability and minimal detectable change scores for the timed "up & go" test, the six-minute walk test, and gait speed in people with Alzheimer disease. 21 Apr 2009
• Older people, mental health and learning. 14 Apr 2009
• [Behavioral problems in Alzheimer disease: current and future treatments] 30 Mar 2009
• Booster sessions enhance the long-term effectiveness of spaced retrieval in older adults with probable Alzheimer's disease. 23 Mar 2009
• [Current status of cognition-based interventions in Alzheimer's disease] 27 Feb 2009
• Cognitive training for early-stage Alzheimer's disease and dementia. 27 Feb 2009
• Keeping In Touch Everyday (KITE) project: developing assistive technologies with people with dementia and their carers to promote independence. 3 Feb 2009
• Intelligent assistive technology applications to dementia care: current capabilities, limitations, and future challenges. 30 Jan 2009
• [An unhealthy development] 30 Dec 2008
• Helping persons with mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease recapture basic daily activities through the use of an instruction strategy. 30 Dec 2008
• Who are the clients?: goal displacement in an adult day care center for elders with dementia. 30 Dec 2008
• Effects of spaced retrieval training (SRT) on cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. 16 Dec 2008
• Efficacy of a vitamin/nutriceutical formulation for early-stage Alzheimer's disease: a 1-year, open-label pilot study with an 16-month caregiver extension. 29 Nov 2008
• Quality of care in Norwegian nursing homes--deficiencies and their correlates. 29 Nov 2008
• [Nonmedical treatment of dementia] 30 Oct 2008
• An exploratory case study of the impact of ambient biographical displays on identity in a patient with Alzheimer's disease. 29 Sep 2008
• [Using childhood in the presence of Alzheimer disease: about return and recurrence] 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Alzheimer Disease'

Definition: A degenerative disease of the BRAIN characterized by the insidious onset of DEMENTIA. Impairment of MEMORY, judgment, attention span, and problem solving skills are followed by severe APRAXIAS and a global loss of cognitive abilities. The condition primarily occurs after age 60, and is marked pathologically by severe cortical atrophy and the triad of SENILE PLAQUES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; and NEUROPIL THREADS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1049-57)

Descriptor UI: D000544

Alternative terms: Alzheimer Disease; Disease, Alzheimer; Dementia, Senile; Dementias, Senile; Senile Dementia; Senile Dementias; Dementia, Primary Senile Degenerative; Senile Dementia, Alzheimer Type; Alzheimer Type Senile Dementia; Primary Senile Degenerative Dementia; Alzheimer's Disease; Disease, Alzheimer's; Dementia, Alzheimer Type; Alzheimer Type Dementia; Dementia, Presenile; Dementias, Presenile; Presenile Dementia; Presenile Dementias; Alzheimer Disease, Late Onset; Late Onset Alzheimer Disease; Alzheimer's Disease, Focal Onset; Focal Onset Alzheimer's Disease; Acute Confusional Senile Dementia; Senile Dementia, Acute Confusional; Alzheimer Disease, Early Onset; Early Onset Alzheimer Disease; Presenile Alzheimer Dementia; Alzheimer Dementia, Presenile; Dementia, Presenile Alzheimer;

Related Mesh Headings: Amyloid beta-Protein; Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor; Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy; tau Proteins; Neurofilament Proteins; Aphasia, Primary Progressive; Kluver-Bucy Syndrome;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.228.140.380.100; C10.574.945.249; F03.087.400.100;

History Note: 1998(1963); for DEMENTIA, PRESENILE and DEMENTIA, PRIMARY DEGENERATIVE SENILE use DEMENTIA 1981-1999; for DEMENTIA SENILE use DEMENTIA 1966-1999