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Progression of Alzheimer's disease
— conference workshop | | Author(s) | Georgina Charlesworth, Hilary Husband |
| Journal title | PSIGE Newsletter, no 67, December 1998 |
| Publisher | Psychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 25-31 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Conference proceedings. |
| Annotation | The aim of the half-day workshop, `Alzheimer's disease - what happens next (and how do we know)?', was to raise the profile of the progression of AD as an issue for consideration and debate. This paper reports on the ideas generated by workshop participants in response to the question, `Why might knowledge about progression be important to people with AD, their relatives, clinicians and service managers?' Models of progression are described, and implications for the critical appraisal of drug company literature are considered. Understanding the progression of AD is important for patients, clinicians, carers and service managers; yet our knowledge of progression is limited. A range of models exist for cognitive and activities of daily living (ADL) decline, including stage, subtype, linear, bi-linear, and tri-linear models, but none of these has predictive value. Ongoing longitudinal studies may improve our knowledge of predictors. However, factors such as mood, insight, behaviour, and their interaction with cognitive outcome remain areas of considerable speculation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990224004 A |
| Classmark | EA: 6M |
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