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Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Should We Be Studying Both Within the Same Study?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Sture Eriksson
Sture Eriksson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychogeriatrics, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umeä, Sweden
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The recognition that behavioral disturbances of dementia are an entity that deserves study raises the question of exactly how these behaviors should be investigated. To obtain useful and relevant data, researchers must carefully design their studies, considering the potential difficulties of studying elderly, cognitively impaired patients. Of particular concern is whether patients with Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia should be included in the same study or whether basic differences between these two diseases warrant separate investigations.

Type
Clinical Perspectives: What Should We Be Studying?
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 8 , Issue S3 , May 1997 , pp. 443 - 445
Copyright
© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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