DiADeM is a tool to support GPs in diagnosing dementia for people living with advanced dementia in a care home setting. It has been developed by the Yorkshire and Humber Dementia Strategic Clinical ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be hard to diagnose, because it is an uncommon type of dementia and does not cause memory problems at first. However, there are some ways to diagnose FTD including ...

The information on these pages is for anyone who is concerned about symptoms of dementia, and for those who would like more information about how dementia is diagnosed. Anyone concerned about their ...

Background: Primary care physicians are positioned to provide early recognition and treatment of dementia. We evaluated the feasibility and utility of a comprehensive screening and diagnosis ...

Overall, 81% of adults who likely had dementia had not received a diagnosis. PCPs’ hesitation to diagnose dementia and a lack of dementia-specific training may be explanations behind the findings.

Joanna Paladino, MD, and colleagues identified four themes that may improve the delivery of a dementia diagnosis for clinicians, patients, and caregivers. “The early detection and diagnosis of ...

Peter Alexander was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 49 Dementia was not something Peter Alexander expected to be diagnosed with in his late 40s. It meant leaving his job and adapting to a ...

A memory clinic is usually part of a hospital. The staff are specialists in finding out what is causing a person’s memory problems and diagnosing dementia. They will perform some in-depth tests and ...

Dementia in older adults is most often caused by neurodegeneration, but the diagnosis of dementia in younger adults can be challenging given the relative diversity of potential etiologies.

Dementia With Lewy Bodies Has Been Difficult to Diagnose Early, but Comprehensive Cognitive Testing Could Change That Jan. 10, 2025 — Cognitive profiles for early diagnosis of Dementia with Lewy ...

A number of blood tests have shown promise in research studies but aren’t routinely used in diagnosing dementia. The Real Word Dementia Outcomes (READ-OUT) study will investigate blood tests that have ...