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...- and middle-income countries. Little is known about dementia in Benin. We estimated the prevalence of dementia among retired people in Parakou, a northern city in Benin, and then assessed associated factors. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed in Parakou from July to August 2014. Participants were...

... = –0.352, p = 0.038). The functional capacity in several activities of daily living was correlated with the score obtained in the CAMCOG in each of the two groups. Depression was more prevalent in the dependent than in the nondependent older adults (82.85 vs. 57.14%). No association was observed between...

...Marieclaire Overton; Mats Pihlsgård; Sölve Elmståhl Objective: The purpose of this study was to report on the prevalence and incidence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) across age, sex, and subtypes according to various criteria in a population-based sample. Methods: The sample was drawn from...

... Study Group on Delirium Background: Delirium is a common geriatric syndrome. Few studies have been conducted in nursing home (NH) residents. The aim of this project was to perform a point prevalence study of delirium in Italian NHs. Methods: Data collected in 71 NHs are presented. Inclusion criteria...

... Joung Kim; Ki Woong Kim Aim: To examine the impact of the revised diagnostic criteria for neurocognitive disorders (NCDs) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5) on the prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Methods: A total of 755...

...Yong Ji; Zhihong Shi; Ying Zhang; Shuling Liu; Shuai Liu; Wei Yue; Mengyuan Liu; Ya Ruth Huo; Jinhuan Wang; Thomas Wisniewski Background/Aims: The aim of this article was to estimate the prevalence of and to determine the sociodemographic risk factors for dementia, Alzheimer's disease (AD...

...-analysis of diagnostic methods and the prevalence of depressive symptoms in FTD. Methods: PubMed, EMBASE and PsychINFO were queried for ‘depression' and/or ‘depressive mood' in behavioral- and language-variant FTD. The prevalence and diagnosis of depressive symptoms were extracted from relevant studies...

...Zhihong Shi; Ying Zhang; Wei Yue; Mengyuan Liu; Ya Ruth Huo; Shuling Liu; Shuai Liu; Lei Xiang; Ping Liu; Hui Lu; Jinhuan Wang; Yong Ji Aims: The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of cognitive impairment (CI) in individuals aged 80 years and over in rural China and to analyze...

...Hitoshi Okamura; Shinya Ishii; Tomoyuki Ishii; Akira Eboshida Background/Aims: The actual prevalence of dementia in Japan as well as the changes in the prevalence are not well known. Therefore, we undertook a systematic review to collect evidence regarding the prevalence of dementia in Japan...

...Teresa Juarez-Cedillo; Rosalinda Sanchez-Arenas; Sergio Sanchez-Garcia; Carmen Garcia-Peña; Ging-Yuek R. Hsiung; Amir A. Sepehry; B. Lynn Beattie; Claudia Jacova Background/Aim: To estimate the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and its subtypes, taking into account education and health...

...N. Venketasubramanian; S. Sahadevan; E.H. Kua; C.P.L. Chen; T.-P. Ng The burden of dementia will continue to rise globally, particularly in developing countries, many of which lie in the Asia-Pacific region. It was initially thought that both prevalence and incidence of dementia showed little...

...Tengku Aizan Hamid; Saroja Krishnaswamy; Siti Suhailah Abdullah; Yadollah Abolfathi Momtaz Objective: The rapid expansion of the aged population in Malaysia is expected to greatly increase the number of persons with dementia in the country. However, data on dementia prevalence at the national level...

...Martha Dlugaj; Christian Weimar; Natalia Wege; Pablo Emilio Verde; Marcus Gerwig; Nico Dragano; Susanne Moebus; Karl-Heinz Jöckel; Raimund Erbel; Johannes Siegrist Aims: We investigated the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and its subtypes according to the original (MCI-original...

...Seok Bum Lee; Ki Woong Kim; Jong Choul Youn; Joon Hyuk Park; Jung Jae Lee; Myoung-Hee Kim; Eun Ae Choi; Jin Hyeong Jhoo; Il Han Choo; Dong Young Lee; Jong Inn Woo Aims: We investigated the influence of varying applications of diagnostic criteria on the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI...

...Eli Wertman; Jenny Brodsky; Yaron King; Netta Bentur; Svetlana Chekhmir The study goal was to identify the prevalence of dementia among elderly people aged 65 and over living in the community in Israel. The target population included 47,834 community-dwelling elderly aged 65 and over in Jerusalem...

...Li Liu; Xiu-E Guo; Yong-Qing Zhou; Jie-Lai Xia To obtain prevalence estimates of dementia in China, an analysis of 17 studies published in Chinese from 1990–1999 was carried out. The prevalence rates for the population aged 60 years and older were 1.26% for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and 0.74...

... examined with a neuropsychiatric examination and an interview with a close informant. Dementia was diagnosed according to DSM-III-R. Medical records from the health centre were examined for entries on cognitive decline or dementia, other diagnoses and prescribed drugs. The prevalence of dementia was 16.3...

...Katsuya Urakami; Yoshiki Adachi; Yosuke Wakutani; Kenji Isoe; Yong Ji; Kazuro Takahashi; Kenji Nakashima We carried out two separate epidemiological studies on long-term changes, 10 years apart, on the prevalence rate of dementia in the elderly by the same method for the same area in Japan. We also...