{"title":"Are there sensitive age ranges at which disrupted sleep differentially affects cognition?","authors":"Kyler Mulhauser, Greta B Raglan","doi":"10.1017/S104161022400053X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S104161022400053X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"36 12","pages":"1086-1088"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143074419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elaine Stasiulis, Gary Naglie, Sarah Sanford, Patricia Belchior, Alexander Crizzle, Isabelle Gélinas, Barbara Mazer, Paige Moorhouse, Anita Myers, Michelle M Porter, Brenda Vrkljan, Mark J Rapoport
{"title":"Developing the Driving and Dementia Roadmap: a knowledge-to-action process.","authors":"Elaine Stasiulis, Gary Naglie, Sarah Sanford, Patricia Belchior, Alexander Crizzle, Isabelle Gélinas, Barbara Mazer, Paige Moorhouse, Anita Myers, Michelle M Porter, Brenda Vrkljan, Mark J Rapoport","doi":"10.1017/S1041610222001235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610222001235","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Despite three decades of research, gaps remain in meeting the needs of people with dementia and their family/friend carers as they navigate the often-tumultuous process of driving cessation. This paper describes the process of using a knowledge-to-action (KTA) approach to develop an educational web-based resource (i.e. toolkit), called the Driving and Dementia Roadmap (DDR), aimed at addressing some of these gaps.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Aligned with the KTA framework, knowledge creation and action cycle activities informed the development of the DDR. These activities included systematic reviews; meta-synthesis of qualitative studies; interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders; development of a Driving and Dementia Intervention Framework (DD-IF); and a review and curation of publicly available resources and tools. An Advisory Group comprised of people with dementia and family carers provided ongoing feedback on the DDR's content and design.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The DDR is a multi-component online toolkit that contains separate portals for current and former drivers with dementia and their family/friend carers. Based on the DD-IF, various topics of driving cessation are presented to accommodate users' diverse stages and needs in their experiences of decision-making and transitioning to non-driving.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Guided by the KTA framework that involved a systematic and iterative process of knowledge creation and translation, the resulting person-centered, individualized and flexible DDR can bring much-needed support to help people with dementia and their families maintain their mobility, community access, and social and emotional wellbeing during and post-driving cessation.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"36 12","pages":"1157-1170"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143074469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Validation of the Japanese version of the Social Functioning in Dementia scale and COVID-19 pandemic's impact on social function in mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia.","authors":"Sumiyo Umeda, Hideki Kanemoto, Maki Suzuki, Tamiki Wada, Takashi Suehiro, Kyosuke Kakeda, Yoshitaka Nakatani, Yuto Satake, Maki Yamakawa, Fuyuki Koizumi, Daiki Taomoto, Sakura Hikida, Natsuho Hirakawa, Andrew Sommerlad, Gill Livingston, Mamoru Hashimoto, Kenji Yoshiyama, Manabu Ikeda","doi":"10.1017/S1041610224000401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610224000401","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We aimed to psychometrically evaluate and validate a Japanese version of the Social Functioning in Dementia scale (SF-DEM-J) and investigate changes in social function in people with dementia during the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>We interviewed people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild dementia and their caregivers during June 2020-March 2021 to validate patient- and caregiver-rated SF-DEM-J and compared their scores at baseline (April 2020 to May 2020) and at 6-8 months (January 2021 to March 2021) during a time of tighter COVID-19 restrictions.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>The neuropsychology clinic in the Department of Psychiatry at Osaka University Hospital and outpatient clinic in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Daini Osaka Police Hospital, Japan.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>103 dyads of patients and caregivers.</p><p><strong>Measurements: </strong>SF-DEM-J, Mini-Mental State Examination, Neuropsychiatric Inventory, UCLA Loneliness Scale, and Apathy Evaluation Scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The scale's interrater reliability was excellent and test-retest reliability was substantial. Content validity was confirmed for the caregiver-rated SF-DEM-J, and convergent validity was moderate. Caregiver-rated SF-DEM-J was associated with apathy, irritability, loneliness, and cognitive impairment. The total score of caregiver-rated SF-DEM-J and the score of Section 2, \"communication with others,\" significantly improved at 6-8 months of follow-up.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The SF-DEM-J is acceptable as a measure of social function in MCI and mild dementia. Our results show that the social functioning of people with dementia, especially communicating with others, improved during the COVID-19 pandemic, probably as a result of adaptation to the restrictive life.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"36 12","pages":"1205-1218"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143074588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Osvaldo P Almeida, Graeme J Hankey, Bu B Yeap, Jonathan Golledge, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Suzanne Robinson, Leon Flicker
{"title":"Is incident cancer in later life associated with lower incidence of dementia?","authors":"Osvaldo P Almeida, Graeme J Hankey, Bu B Yeap, Jonathan Golledge, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Suzanne Robinson, Leon Flicker","doi":"10.1017/S1041610222001119","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1041610222001119","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cancer has been associated with lower risk of dementia, although methodological issues raise concerns about the validity of this association. We recruited 31,080 men aged 65-85 years who were free of cancer and dementia, and followed them for up to 22 years. We used health record linkage to identify incident cases of cancer and dementia, and split time span to investigate this association. 18,693 (60.1%) and 6897 (22.2%) participants developed cancer and dementia during follow-up. The hazard ratio (HR) of dementia associated with cancer was 1.13 (95% CI = 1.07, 1.20) and dropped to 0.85 (95% CI = 0.80, 0.91) when 449 participants who developed dementia within 2 years were excluded. The diagnosis of cancer seems to facilitate the early detection of dementia cases. Older participants who survive cancer for 2 or more years have lower risk of receiving the diagnosis of dementia over time. The factors that mediate this association remain unclear.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":" ","pages":"1251-1255"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10818495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Importance of social functioning for older adults in the communities, the facilities, the clinics, and in the future.","authors":"Asuna Arai, Takashi Ozaki, Yuriko Katsumata","doi":"10.1017/S1041610224000577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610224000577","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"36 12","pages":"1089-1092"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143074489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel E Cohen, Hyun Kim, Alina Levine, Davangere P Devanand, Seonjoo Lee, Terry E Goldberg
{"title":"Effects of age on the relationship between sleep quality and cognitive performance: Findings from the Human Connectome Project-Aging cohort.","authors":"Daniel E Cohen, Hyun Kim, Alina Levine, Davangere P Devanand, Seonjoo Lee, Terry E Goldberg","doi":"10.1017/S1041610223000911","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1041610223000911","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The association between sleep quality and cognition is widely established, but the role of aging in this relationship is largely unknown.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine how age impacts the sleep-cognition relationship and determine whether there are sensitive ranges when the relationship between sleep and cognition is modified. This investigation could help identify individuals at risk for sleep-related cognitive impairment.</p><p><strong>Subjects: </strong>Sample included 711 individuals (ages 36.00-89.83, 59.66 ± 14.91, 55.7 % female) from the Human Connectome Project-Aging (HCP-A).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The association between sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI) and cognition (Crystallized Cognition Composite and Fluid Cognition Composite from the NIH Toolbox, the Trail Making Test, TMT, and the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, RAVLT) was measured using linear regression models, with sex, race, use of sleep medication, hypertension, and years of education as covariates. The interaction between sleep and age on cognition was tested using the moderation analysis, with age as both continuous linear and nonlinear (quadratic) terms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was a significant interaction term between the PSQI and nonlinear age term (age<sup>2</sup>) on TMT-B (<i>p</i> = 0.02) and NIH Toolbox crystallized cognition (<i>p</i> = 0.02), indicating that poor sleep quality was associated with worse performance on these measures (sensitive age ranges 50-75 years for TMT-B and 66-70 years for crystallized cognition).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The sleep-cognition relationship may be modified by age. Individuals in the middle age to early older adulthood age band may be most vulnerable to sleep-related cognitive impairment.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":" ","pages":"1171-1181"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11147958/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138477690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diagnostic challenges and disparities in young-onset dementia: insights from a Southeast London memory clinic study.","authors":"Latha Velayudhan, Christoph Mueller","doi":"10.1017/S1041610224000073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610224000073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"36 12","pages":"1264-1266"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143074475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Susmita Chandramouleeshwaran, Waqas U Khan, Fiona Inglis, Tarek K Rajji
{"title":"Impact of psychotropic medications on cognition among older adults: a systematic review.","authors":"Susmita Chandramouleeshwaran, Waqas U Khan, Fiona Inglis, Tarek K Rajji","doi":"10.1017/S1041610223000844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610223000844","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The aim of this systematic review is to examine the cognitive impact of psychotropic medications including benzodiazepines, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, or a combination of these drugs on older adults.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Systematic review.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>We searched Medline, PsycINFO, and Embase through the Ovid platform, CINAHL through EBSCO, and Web of Science.</p><p><strong>Participants and interventions: </strong>Randomized control trials (RCTs) and cohort studies that used a validated scale to measure cognition with a follow-up period of at least six months were included.</p><p><strong>Measurement: </strong>The primary outcome of interest was cognitive change associated with psychotropic medication use.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 7551 articles were identified from the primary electronic literature search across the five databases after eliminating duplicates. Based on full-text analysis, 27 articles (two RCTs, 25 cohorts) met the inclusion criteria. Of these, nine each examined the impact of benzodiazepines and antidepressants, five examined psychotropic combinations, three on antipsychotic drugs, and one on the effects of mood stabilizers.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This is the first systematic review to examine the cognitive impact of multiple psychotropic drug classes in older adults over an extended follow-up period (six months or more) using robust sample sizes, drug-free control groups, and validated cognitive instruments. We found evidence to indicate cognitive decline with the cumulative use of benzodiazepines and the use of antidepressants, especially those with anticholinergic properties among older adults without cognitive impairment at baseline. Further, the use of antipsychotics and psychotropic combinations is also associated with cognitive decline in older adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"36 12","pages":"1110-1127"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143074488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Osvaldo P Almeida, Graeme J Hankey, Bu B Yeap, Jonathan Golledge, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Suzanne Robinson, Leon Flicker
{"title":"Is incident cancer in later life associated with lower incidence of dementia?","authors":"Osvaldo P Almeida, Graeme J Hankey, Bu B Yeap, Jonathan Golledge, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Suzanne Robinson, Leon Flicker","doi":"10.1017/S1041610222001119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610222001119","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cancer has been associated with lower risk of dementia, although methodological issues raise concerns about the validity of this association. We recruited 31,080 men aged 65-85 years who were free of cancer and dementia, and followed them for up to 22 years. We used health record linkage to identify incident cases of cancer and dementia, and split time span to investigate this association. 18,693 (60.1%) and 6897 (22.2%) participants developed cancer and dementia during follow-up. The hazard ratio (HR) of dementia associated with cancer was 1.13 (95% CI = 1.07, 1.20) and dropped to 0.85 (95% CI = 0.80, 0.91) when 449 participants who developed dementia within 2 years were excluded. The diagnosis of cancer seems to facilitate the early detection of dementia cases. Older participants who survive cancer for 2 or more years have lower risk of receiving the diagnosis of dementia over time. The factors that mediate this association remain unclear.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"36 12","pages":"1251-1255"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143074493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leah M Cohen, Eleanor Ash, John D Outen, Ryan Vandrey, Halima Amjad, Marc Agronin, M Haroon Burhanullah, Patricia Walsh, James M Wilkins, Jeannie-Marie Leoutsakos, Milap A Nowrangi, David Harper, Paul B Rosenberg, Brent P Forester
{"title":"Study rationale and baseline data for pilot trial of dronabinol adjunctive treatment of agitation in Alzheimer's dementia (THC-AD).","authors":"Leah M Cohen, Eleanor Ash, John D Outen, Ryan Vandrey, Halima Amjad, Marc Agronin, M Haroon Burhanullah, Patricia Walsh, James M Wilkins, Jeannie-Marie Leoutsakos, Milap A Nowrangi, David Harper, Paul B Rosenberg, Brent P Forester","doi":"10.1017/S1041610221001150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610221001150","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Agitation is a common complication of Alzheimer's dementia (Agit-AD) associated with substantial morbidity, high healthcare service utilization, and adverse emotional and physical impact on care partners. There are currently no FDA-approved pharmacological treatments for Agit-AD. We present the study design and baseline data for an ongoing multisite, three-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial of dronabinol (synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol [THC]), titrated to a dose of 10 mg daily, in 80 participants to examine the safety and efficacy of dronabinol as an adjunctive treatment for Agit-AD. Preliminary findings for 44 participants enrolled thus far show a predominately female, white sample with advanced cognitive impairment (Mini Mental Status Examination mean 7.8) and agitation (Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Clinician Agitation subscale mean 14.1). Adjustments to study design in light of the COVID-19 pandemic are described. Findings from this study will provide guidance for the clinical utility of dronabinol for Agit-AD. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02792257.</p>","PeriodicalId":14368,"journal":{"name":"International psychogeriatrics","volume":"36 12","pages":"1245-1250"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143074498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}