Meanings of demented patients in English

Conclusion: Irrespective of antibiotic treatment, pneumonia causes substantial suffering in demented patients.

Measuring demented patients' 'quality of life' is an important issue in the Netherlands.

Subjects and methods: 82 elderly demented patients underwent clinical, bio-chemical and functional assessment.

We plan further validation of the DQoL in Dutch demented patients.

Hypothalamic dysfunction is of interest with regard to the neuroendocrine disturbances seen in Alzheimer- demented patients.

Functional correlation was maintained between posterior cingulate and middle frontal cortex in demented patients as in elderly controls.

It was found that a decrease in alertness occurred more often in the demented patients than in the controls.

Very mildly demented patients showed expected disease-related patterns of brain atrophy with reductions in whole-brain and hippocampal volumes most prominent.

Non-treatment decisions concerning demented patients are complex: in addition to issues concerning the health of patients, ethical and legal issues are involved.

This paper examines the experiences of caregivers of demented patients at the moment of registration on the waiting list for nursing-home care.

In the 8 demented patients, the total callosal area was significantly correlated with the mean level of oxygen metabolism in the cerebral white matter.

We describe four demented patients with mirror behaviors assessing brain mechanisms of self recognition, social brain and mental and visuo-spatial manipulation of images and objects.

HS was found in several post mortem series of demented patients either in association with specific pathologies, such as Alzheimer disease (AD) or isolated.