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Personal computers provide an increasingly accessible resource for leisure, social engagement and activities of daily living. This systematic review aimed to explore preventative or therapeutic benefits of such technology in people at risk of, or living with, dementia.
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Physical exercise has gained increasing focus as a potential mean to maintain cognitive function in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Alongside the markers of specific AD pathology (amyloid β and tau), other pathologies such as neuronal damage and synaptic loss have been proposed as markers of the disease. Here, we study the effect of physical exercise on biomarkers of neuronal and synaptic integrity.
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This study was performed to assess oral and nutritional status of nursing home residents in a region of Lower Saxony, Germany.
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This paper focuses on common geriatric conditions that can display oral or dental symptoms.
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The MEETINGDEM study aims to implement and evaluate an innovative, inclusive, approach to supporting community dwelling people with mild to moderate dementia and their family carers, called the Meeting Centers Support Program (MCSP), in three countries in the European Union (EU): Italy, Poland and United Kingdom. Demonstrated benefits of this person-centered approach, developed in The Netherlands, include high user satisfaction, reduced behavioral and mood problems, delayed admission to residential care, lower levels of caregiving-related stress, higher carer competence, and improved collaboration between care and welfare organizations.
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Inadequate education of carers of people with dementia (both family and professional) is seen as a key problem that needs addressing in addition to challenges of self-neglect, social isolation, medication nonadherence. Seven out of top 10 problems related to patients and/or carers signalling clearly where help and support are needed. The top ranked solutions focused on involvement and education of family carers, their supervision and continuing support. Several suggestions highlighted a need for improvement of recruitment, oversight and working conditions of professional carers and for different home safety-proofing strategies.
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Caregivers experience a complex role, with added responsibilities, new tasks, and emotional and relational challenges that are expressed through distressing emotions and demands for interaction. Additionally, the caregiving role leads to positive experiences, such as acceptance and adaptation, support and help, and positive changes in the relationship. Day care relieves family caregivers by meeting the person with dementia’s needs for social community, nutrition, physical activity, and structure and variety in everyday life. Using a DCC led to a higher quality of time spent together and easier cooperation, but it also produced some hard feelings and challenging situations. DCCs gave the caregivers a feeling of freedom and increased the time available to be spent on their own needs, to be social and to work or do practical tasks undisturbed.
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This study examines the specific needs in young onset dementia (YOD) to provide the basis for the development of an e-health intervention to assist caregivers in coping with YOD in several European countries.
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Concern about the effect of Brexit on the UK nursing workforce could intensify, with new figures showing fewer EU nurses in post at certain NHS trusts and fewer registering to work in the UK.
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Nurses working in the London area have benefited from a London ‘weighting’ for as long as many can remember. It can be the difference between being able to live and work in the capital and being forced to move elsewhere by the high cost of housing.
London is by no means the only city where workers struggle to afford rents or buy their own home. NHS employers in property hotspots such as Oxford are now considering paying a premium to attract and retain nurses
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