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  2. Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia Scale - Wikipedia

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    The scale was used as an outcome measure of the first randomised controlled trial of an intervention to alleviate feeding difficulty [7] and has been used as an outcome measure in a national study of feeding difficulty in older people with dementia in Canada; [8] In this study it was shown that a 1-unit change in the EdFED score is equivalent ...

  3. Self-administered Gerocognitive Examination - Wikipedia

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    The Self-administered Gerocognitive Examination is a brief cognitive assessment instrument for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia, created by Douglas Scharre, Professor of Clinical Neurology and Psychiatry at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.

  4. General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition - Wikipedia

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    A recently conducted study in Australia [8] found that the GPCOG in comparison to the MMSE and Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS) [9] was best to rule out dementia in a multicultural cohort of 151 community-dwelling persons. [8] Its sensitivity was higher (98.1) as compared to MMSE and RUDAS (84.3 and 87.7, respectively).

  5. Mini–mental state examination - Wikipedia

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    The MMSE may help differentiate different types of dementias. People with Alzheimer's disease may score significantly lower on orientation to time and place as well as recall, compared to those who have dementia with Lewy bodies, vascular dementia, or Parkinson's disease dementia. [25] [26] [27]

  6. About 4% of US adults age 65 and older have a dementia ...

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    Some 4% of U.S. adults aged 65 and older say they have been diagnosed with dementia, a rate that reached 13% for those at least 85-years old, according to a report of a national survey released on ...

  7. Frontotemporal dementia - Wikipedia

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    It is suggested that people with orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction show a tendency to make social blunders due to a deficit in self-monitoring. [54] Self-monitoring is the ability of individuals to evaluate their own behavior to make sure that their behavior is appropriate in particular situations.

  8. Alzheimer's disease - Wikipedia

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    It most often begins in people over 65 years of age, although up to 10% of cases are early-onset impacting those in their 30s to mid-60s. [27] [4] It affects about 6% of people 65 years and older, [16] and women more often than men. [28] The disease is named after German psychiatrist and pathologist Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in ...

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