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Neurocognitive disorders in older adults
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Dementia
dementia is a neurocognitive disorder, there is a distinction between mild and major. |
dementia is not a specific disease, it is an umbrella term for a range of disorders (i.e alzheimer's) |
60% live in low and middle income countries |
dementia Initiatives 1. dementia friends Canada 2. a dementia strategy for Canada 3. canadian consortium on neurodegeneration in aging 4. national strategy for aging |
Diagnostic Challenges
lack of comprehensive assessment |
20-50% of people go undiagnosed |
NINCDS and ARADA first established criteria for the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in 1984 |
incorporation of biomarkers (1. Tau and amyloid protein in cerebrospinal fluid , 2. Tau in brain) |
Diagnostic Challenges
lack of comprehensive assessment |
20-50% of people go undiagnosed |
NINCDS and ARADA first established criteria for the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in 1984 |
incorporation of biomarkers (1. Tau and amyloid protein in cerebrospinal fluid , 2. Tau in brain) |
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Alzheimer's
discovered by DR. Alzheimer in 1906 |
insidious onset, irreversible, behaviour and personality changes |
shrinkage of the brain, amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles |
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insidious onset, irreversible, progressive brain disease, behaviour and personality changes. |
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