Door de dubbele vergrijzing (meer ouderen leven langer) zal het aantal mensen met dementie de komende jaren sterk toenemen. Dementie is een overkoepelend verzamelbegrip met vele verschillende oorzaken. De meest voorkomende oorzaken zijn de ziekte van Alzheimer en vasculaire dementie. Daarnaast komen …

Dementie komt veel voor, vooral op hogere leeftijd neemt de kans aanzienlijk toe. Dementie is een syndroom dat wordt gekenmerkt door een duidelijke cognitieve achteruitgang ten opzichte van een eerder niveau van functioneren, in een of meer cognitieve domeinen (complexe aandacht, executieve functies, …

Background: Paratonia causes severe movement dysfunction in late stage dementia. Passive Movement Therapy (PMT) is often used to decrease high muscle tone, but the efficacy has never been shown. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of PMT on muscle tone after two and four weeks of …

BACKGROUND: Paratonia is a progressive motor problem that is observed in individuals with dementia and is not a well-known phenomenon. This study explores the development and risk factors of paratonia in moderate stage dementia patients. METHODS: A multi-center, longitudinal, one-year follow-up cohort …

BACKGROUND: Paratonia is one of the associated movement disorders characteristic of dementia. The aim of this study was to develop an assessment tool (the Paratonia Assessment Instrument, PAI), based on the new consensus definition of paratonia. An additional aim was to investigate the reliability and …

BACKGROUND: Paratonia, a form of hypertonia, is associated with loss of mobility and with the development of contractures especially in the late stages of the dementia. Passive movement therapy (PMT) currently is the main physiotherapeutic intervention. General doubt about the beneficial effects of this …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Paratonia is a motor problem that develops during the course of dementia. Definitions of paratonia used in the literature differ considerably, which has clinical implications and may lead to an undesirable heterogeneity in study populations. For this reason, we initiated a Delphi …