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Gait and Cognition: Exploring Cognition and Dual-task Costs in a Group of Community Dwelling Alzheimer’s Disease Patients over 6 Months
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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder resulting in cognitive decline affecting many activities of daily living including gait. Many tools exist to monitor AD progression, including cognitive examinations, and functional tests of mobility. The purpose of the present study is...
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Characterizing physical activity documentation patterns and curriculum of Canadian family physicians
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Family physicians (FP) can be meaningful advocates to support patients to attain the benefits of physical activity (PA); however, the PA-related documentation FPs make in electronic medical records (EMR) is largely unknown. The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct three studies: to examine...
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Fall 2020
Tauopathies are a class of neurological disorders associated with the aggregation of the tau protein into neurofibrillary tangles. The most prominent tauopathy is Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which presents as two forms: early onset (familial, fAD) and late onset (sporadic, sAD). sAD does not have a...
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Thermal response of amyloidogenic elements in cultured N2a cells: potential relevance to Alzheimer’s disease pathology
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) weighs a large burden on health care systems, families and caregiving networks around the world. It is the most common dementia afflicting elderly individuals, and causes many debilitating symptoms, including memory loss, mood swings and confusion which progress in...
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Prevalence, Characteristics, and Unmet Needs of Unbefriended Residents in Alberta Long-Term Care Homes
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Background: Older adults who lack decision-making capacity and a willing or able surrogate to act as their representative are defined as unbefriended. These unbefriended older adults often require a public guardian and reside in long-term care (LTC) homes. Unbefriended LTC residents are at risk...
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Putative ante-mortem indicators of Alzheimer’s dementia: Analysis of fluid biomarker and neuroimaging studies
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Dementia is a clinical state, characterized by symptoms indicative of deterioration of memoryand cognitive functions that interferes with social or occupational functioning. According to2018 statistics, around 50 million people are living with dementia, and this number will increaseto 131.5...
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Fall 2019
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide. It has been proposed that AD pathology is transmissible by a “prion-like” mechanism through extracellular vesicles (EVs) that contain Aβ. In this context, EVs describe both microvesicles and exosomes,...
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Estimating the Seroprevalence of Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and the Risk of Transfusion-Transmitted and Community-Acquired CMV Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Donors and Recipients
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are ubiquitous herpesviruses that establish lifelong, often asymptomatic, infections in healthy people, but are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality in certain hosts. CMV is the most common congenital infection worldwide, causing...
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Common Conditions in Primary Care and Minimal Clinically Important Differences on Depression Scales
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Primary care has the highest patient volume and the greatest complexity of illness compared to other specialties and levels of health care. Although local data are available, a global perspective on the most common reasons for consulting primary care is lacking. Identifying these conditions would...
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Examining Differences in Oral Health Status Based on Assessments Conducted by Long-Term Care Staff Versus a Dentist
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Long-term care demand is increasing as Canada’s population ages and experiences a growing prevalence of dementia. Long-term care residents are highly dependent on health care providers for ongoing assessment and care due to complex cognitive and other medical conditions. One aspect of health...