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Journal of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, Volume 2, Issue 1

March 2025 - 6 articles

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Articles (6)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,025 Views
9 Pages

Aim: Our aim was to survey people with dementia and their carers with respect to their propensity to join a randomized trial of community singing in dementia, in the context of uncertainty following the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: We employed an onlin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,301 Views
11 Pages

Palliative Care in the Community and the Relevance of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Placement to Quality of Life and Survival

  • Júlia Magalhães,
  • Hugo Ribeiro,
  • Inês Rodrigues,
  • Elisabete Costa,
  • João Rocha Neves,
  • José Paulo Andrade,
  • António Bernardes and
  • Marília Dourado

Introduction: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement does not generate consensus in palliative care, given the existing doubts about whether it significantly contributes to an improvement in patient outcomes such as survival, quality of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,680 Views
15 Pages

(1) Background: Alterations in brain functional connectivity (FC) precede clinical symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by decades, presenting opportunities for early diagnosis. However, conventional FC analyses measure correlations between bra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9,414 Views
9 Pages

Benefits of Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Cognition: Systematic Literature Review

  • Júlia Montalvão Neves,
  • Cátia Andreia Maciel and
  • Pedro Alexandre-Sousa

Introduction: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is characterized by intermittent hypoxia, sleep fragmentation, daytime sleepiness, cognitive impairment, and brain cell damage due to brain blood flow reduction, with ischemic damage, increased mi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6,861 Views
17 Pages

An Overview of Transgenic Mouse Models for the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Paula Alexandra Lopes,
  • Mafalda Soares Pádua and
  • José L. Guil-Guerrero

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, and no cure is currently available. The β-amyloid cascade of AD and neurofibrillary tangles are the basis of the current understanding of AD pathogenesis, driving drug investig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,131 Views
12 Pages

Fidelity Assessment Tool for a Dementia Carers’ Group-Psychotherapy Intervention

  • Mary Chiu,
  • Laura J. Nelles,
  • Virginia Wesson,
  • Andrea Lawson and
  • Joel Sadavoy

Context: The systematic evaluation of a practitioner’s adherence to and competence in delivering psychotherapeutic interventions can be complex. This study describes the development of a fidelity assessment tool for the Reitman Centre CARERS Pr...

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J. Dement. Alzheimer's Dis. - ISSN 3042-4518