Aims: To estimate dementia prevalence and describe the etiology of dementia in a community sample from the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Methods: A sample of subjects older than 60 years was screened for dementia in the first ...

As mentioned in your Editorial,1 dementia is having a huge social and economic eff ect in Latin American countries. The prevalence of dementia in people aged 65 years and older is about 7·1%.2 As the population continues ...

Interaction with living place and neighbourhood is one of the cornerstones for creating dementia-friendly communities (DFC). Chile has one of the largest proportions of older adults in Latin America and is currently ...

A working group of the 2016 International Summit on Intellectual Disability and Dementia was charged to examine the terminology used to define and report on dementia in publications related to intellectual disability (ID). ...

Frontotemporal dementia has 3 variants: frontal or behavioral (VF), progressive non fluent aphasia (APnF) and semantic dementia (DS). This one frequently starts as a progressive fluent aphasia (APF). In a series of 40 ...

Background: Early progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA) may be difficult to differentiate from semantic dementia (SD) in a nonspecialist setting. There are descriptions of the clinical and neuropsychological profiles of ...

Keywords • Alzheimer's disease • Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia • Early-onset dementia • Late-onset dementia • Neuropsychiatric symptoms Abstract Neurodegenerative dementias that occur in adults can present ...