91% of seniors with dementia have this in common, research says
New research found a common thread for seniors with dementia.
As you get older, you tend tolose some of your mental sharpness. But sometimes, your oblivion or your struggle to follow the familiar directorates could be aDementia, which is much more serious. Because there is such a blurred line between normalChanges in the brain Like us, like us, as we find you, forget where you put your keys or name of the person you have just encountered dementia symptoms and you can pass undiagnosed. Now, a new study found that a majority of older adults with dementia have something in common. Read it to find out what 91% of seniors with dementia share.
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About 91% of seniors with dementia are undiagnosed.
A new study published on May 18 in theAlzheimer's Disease Journal found that very few older adults withDementia receives a diagnosis. Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM), the North State University Dakota and the University of Ohio have developed and analyzed a sample of more than six million Americans aged 65 or more. According to the study, they found that 91.4% of these seniors with cognitive deficiency compatible with dementia had not received a formal and medical diagnosis. This means that about 9 seniors from 9 elderly with dementia do not know they have.
Sheria Robinson-Lane, PhD, a co-author of study and assistant professor at the UM Nursing School, stated in a statement that the divergence "was higher than I was expecting."
Some demographic data are more likely to have undiagnosed dementia.
The study also broke the points common among those with undiagnosed cognitive impairment with dementia, finding that some demographic data were more likely to not receive diagnosis.
According to the conclusions, 93.3% of people identified as non-Hispanic blacks with signs of dementia had no diagnosis. And 99.7% of men with signs of dementia were undiagnosed against 90.2% of women. In terms of education among people with symptoms consistent with dementia, 93.5% of non-high school graduates, compared with 90.9% who had at least a high school education.
"There is a great disparity in the treatment and diagnosis of dementia in black elderly, often diagnosed much later in the trajectory of the disease compared to other racial and ethnic groups," confirmed Robinson-Lane.
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Dementi projections are not routine for the elderly.
Robinson-Lane stated that one concerning the root of undiagnosed dementia is that cognitive assessments are not routine in annual balance sheets. And even if doctors make the screen for dementia, some do not really say patients from their diagnosis. A 2015 study led by researchers from the Alzheimer Association found that 45% of the people who wereTreaty for Alzheimer have never been informed by their doctor that they had the disease, as indicated byTIME Magazine.
Researchers in the study of 2021 found that when proxy journalists - generally members of the family of these seniors responded to the survey, they saw the prevalence of undiagnosed cases falling from 91% to about 75 %. While being still significant, Robinson-Lane said, who indicates that someone else in the life of an elderly person can know that they have dementia while the patient does not do it.
Dementia can highlight you at risk of hospitalization and death as a result of an infection.
Robinson-Lane said the Pandemic of Covid adds a level of importance to the need for routine cognitive evaluations for the elderly, because people with dementia have a higher risk of hospitalization and death after the infection. A study published in February in the journalAlzheimer's & Dementis: The Journal of the Alzheimer Associationhave found that the overall risk of adult hospitalization withCovid and dementiawas nearly 60%, compared with 25% for the general population of covidant patients. And the risk of COVID's death for patients with dementia was 21% compared to the general risk of just over 5%.
"Now more than ever, these routine projections and evaluations are really critical," Robinson-Lane said. "I think it's particularly important to have basic information available to patient suppliers over 65 years old."
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