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Dementia and behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia affect older adults' care‐need levels. With aging comes an increase in the incidence of sensory impairments, which promotes the development of dementia.… Click to show full abstract
Dementia and behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia affect older adults' care‐need levels. With aging comes an increase in the incidence of sensory impairments, which promotes the development of dementia. We investigated the association between sensory impairments – visual impairment (VI), hearing impairment (HI), and dual sensory impairment (DSI), the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, and dementia incidence.
Keywords:
incidence;
impairments dementia;
impact sensory;
dementia incidence;
older adults;
sensory impairments
Journal Title: Psychogeriatrics
Year Published: 2019
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Journal Title: Psychogeriatrics
Year Published: 2019
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