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Quality of Life in Patients With Vascular Dementia

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Vascular Dementia

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Abstract

Little is known about quality of life (QOL) in vascular dementia (VaD). The past decade has witnessed considerable attention to QOL issues in dementia, but the majority of this work has been conducted with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or mixed dementia samples, with surprisingly scant attention devoted exclusively to VaD populations. Thus, this chapter primarily focuses on future directions for work regarding QOL in VaD, a largely uncharted territory. Current conceptualizations and measurement issues regarding QOL in dementia are reviewed. Hypotheses about QOL in VaD are generated from the literature bases regarding QOL in AD and in stroke patients without dementia, which are two patient populations that share overlapping features with VaD.

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    Brian R. Ott MD

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    Brian R. Ott MD  & Stephen Salloway MD  & 

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Ready, R.E., Ott, B.R. (2005). Quality of Life in Patients With Vascular Dementia. In: Paul, R.H., Cohen, R., Ott, B.R., Salloway, S. (eds) Vascular Dementia. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-824-2:323

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