Knowledge and Attitudes towards Dementia among the General Public in Singapore: A Comparative Analysis

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Friday, February 16, 2024 | Dementia

This paper provides a summary of findings on the public’s knowledge and attitudes towards dementia. We aim to investigate if the attitudes of Singaporeans towards dementia have changed over the years by adopting a questionnaire used in a similar study in 2012. A...

Analysis of Concomitant Medications Prescribed with Antipsychotics to Patients with Dementia

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Friday, February 16, 2024 | Dementia

Antipsychotics are still commonly prescribed to patients with dementia, despite the many issues that have been identified. This study aimed to quantify antipsychotic prescription in patients with dementia and the types of concomitant medications prescribed with...

Combining Physical and Cognitive Functions to Discriminate Level of Gait Independence in Hospitalized Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Friday, February 16, 2024 | Dementia

Both physical and cognitive functions are required to be assessed to determine the level of gait independence in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD); nonetheless, a method to achieve this assessment has not been established. This study aimed to investigate the...

Explainable Alzheimer’s Disease Detection Using Linguistic Features from Automatic Speech Recognition

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Friday, February 16, 2024 | Dementia

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent type of dementia and can cause abnormal cognitive function and progressive loss of essential life skills. Early screening is thus necessary for the prevention and intervention of AD. Speech dysfunction is an early onset...

Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease with Interpretable Machine Learning

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Friday, February 16, 2024 | Dementia

This study aimed to develop novel machine learning models for predicting Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and identify key factors for targeted prevention. We included 1,219, 863, and 482 participants aged 60+ years with only sociodemographic, both sociodemographic and...

The dementia care study (D‐CARE): Recruitment strategies and demographic characteristics of participants in a pragmatic randomized trial of dementia care

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, February 15, 2024 | Dementia

Abstract INTRODUCTION Pragmatic research studies that include diverse dyads of persons living with dementia (PLWD) and their family caregivers are rare. METHODS Community-dwelling dyads were recruited for a pragmatic clinical trial evaluating three approaches to...