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    • Dementia Research in the Caribbean Hispanic Islands: Present Findings and Future Trends 

      Acosta, Daisy; Llibre-Guerra, Jorge Jesús; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Lllibre-Rodríguez, Juan J. (Front. Public Health, 2021-01-18)
      During the last decade, the Caribbean Hispanic islands experienced accelerated demographic aging, representing the fastest aging region within Latin America. Age-related non-communicable diseases, including dementia, are ...

    • Dementia severity and weight loss: a comparison across eight cohorts. the 10/66 study. 

      Albanese, Emiliano; Taylor, Clare; Siervo, Mario; Stewart, Robert; Prince, Martin J.; Acosta, Daisy (Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2013)
      We aimed to investigate the association between dementia severity and weight loss in countries with low and middle incomes, where most prevalent cases reside. Methods: Cross-sectional catchment area surveys were performed ...

    • Dependence- and disability-free life expectancy across eight low- and middle-income countries: a 10/66 study 

      Prina, A. Matthew; Wu, Yu-Tzu; Kralj, Carolina; Acosta, Daisy; Acosta, Isaac; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jotheeswaran, Amuthavalli T.; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Liu, Zhaorui; Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Prince, Martin J. (Journal of Aging and Health, 2019-01-30)
      The objective of this study was to estimate healthy life expectancies in eight low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), using two indicators: disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and dependence-free life expectancy ...

    • Deterioro cognitivo en pacientes geriátricos mediante el test del reloj en la unidad de atención primaria El caliche, sector Los ríos en el período julio-diciembre 2019. 

      Altagracia Bastardo, Giselle Nicole; Bautista Alcántara, Yennifer Altagracia (Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña, 2020)
      Se realizó un estudio con el fin de determinar el nivel de deterioro cognitivo en los pacientes geriátricos, se aplicó un diseño metodológico: observacional, descriptivo y transversal de recolección de datos prospectivo. ...

    • Dietary fish and meat intake and dementia in Latin America, China, and India: A 10/66 Dementia Research Group 

      Albanese, Emiliano; Dangour, Alan D.; Uauy, Ricardo; Acosta, Daisy; Guerra, Mariella; Gallardo Guerra, Sara S.; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Hernández Noriega, Lisseth; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D.; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Prince, Martin J. (American Journal o f Clinical Nutrition, 2009)
      Evidence of an association between fish and meat consumption and risk of dementia is inconsistent and nonexistent in populations in developing countries. Objective: The objective was to investigate associations between ...

    • Effects of education and culture on the validity of the Geriatric Mental State and its AGECAT algorithm. 

      Prince, Martin J.; Acosta, Daisy; Chiu, Helen; Copeland, John; Dewey, Michael E.; Scazufca, Marcia; Varghese, Mathew (British Journal of Psychiatry, 2004)
      The Geriatric Mental State (GMS) is the most widely used psychiatric research assessment for older persons. Evidence for validity comes from the developed world. Aims: To assess the validity of GMS/AGECATorganicity and ...

    • The epidemiology of dependency among urban-dwelling older people in the Dominican Republic: a cross-sectional survey. 

      Acosta, Daisy; Rottbeck, Ruth; Rodríguez Pichardo, Guillermina; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Prince, Martin J. (BMC Public Health, 2008)
      Demographic ageing, and the health transition will soon lead to large increases in the number of dependent older people in low and middle income countries. Despite its importance, this topic has not previously been ...

    • Equity in the delivery of community healthcare to older people: Findings from 10/66 Dementia research group cross-sectional surveys in Latin America, China, India and Nigeria. 

      Albanese, Emiliano; Liu, Zhaorui; Acosta, Daisy; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Jiménez Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Uwakwe, Richard; Williams, Joseph D.; Borges, Guilherme; Jotheeswaran, A. T; Klibanski, Milagros G.; McCrone, Paul; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Prince, Martin J. (BMC Health Services Research, 2011)
      To describe patterns of recent health service utilisation, and consequent out-of-pocket expenses among older people in countries with low and middle incomes, and to assess the equity with which services are accessed and ...

    • Estigma de las demencias: experiencia de cuidadores-familiares. Agosto-octubre 2014 

      Gomera Rodríguez, Yanela Josefina (Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Escuela de Medicina., 2014)
      Se realizó un estudio observacional, descriptivo, transversal que tuvo por objeto determinar la percepción de los cuidadores de los pacientes con demencia que asisten a un consultorio privado de Distrito Nacional sobre ...

    • Exploring the natural history of intrinsic capacity impairments : longitudinal patterns in the10/66 study 

      Gonzalez-Bautista, Emmanuel; Llibre-Guerra, Jorge Jesus; Sosa, Ana L; Acosta, Isaac; Andrieu, Sandrine; Acosta, Daisy; Llibre-Rodríguez, Juan de Jesús; Prina, Matthew (Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society, 2023)
      Intrinsic capacity (IC) is a construct encompassing people's physical and mental abilities. There is an implicit link amongst IC domains: cognition, locomotion, nutrition, sensory and psychological. However, little is known ...

    • Frailty and the prediction of dependence and mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a 10/66 population based cohort study. 

      Jotheeswaran, A. T.; Bryce, R.; Prina, A. Matthew; Acosta, Daisy; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D.; Dewey, Michael E.; Acosta, Isaac; Liu, Zhaorui; Beard, John; Prince, Martin J. (BMC Medicine, 2015)
      In countries with high incomes, frailty indicators predict adverse outcomes in older people, despite a lack of consensus on definition or measurement. We tested the predictive validity of physical and multidimensional ...

    • Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control among older people in Latin America, India and China: a 10/66 cross-sectional population-based survey 

      Prince, Martin J; Ebrahim, Shah; Acosta, Daisy; P Ferri, Cleusa; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K S; Jimenez-Velazquez, Ivonne Z; Rodriguez, Juan L; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana L; Williams, Joseph D; Gonzalez-Viruet, Maribella; Jotheeswaran, Amuthavilli T; Liu, Zhaorui (J Hypertens ., 2012)
      To estimate the prevalence, social patterning, treatment and control of hypertension among older people in the 10/66 Dementia Research Group developing country sites. Cross-sectional surveys of SBP, hypertension, and ...

    • The impact of COVID19 on Mental Health in the Hispanic Caribbean Region 2020 

      Acosta, Daisy; Llibre Guerra, Jorge J.; Jiménez Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J. (International Psychogeriatric, 2020)
      The recent global severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic will leave its shadow over mental health in our society, especially among the most vulnerable such as elderly populations and those ...

    • The impact of SARS-CoV-2 in dementia across Latin America: A call for an urgent regional plan and coordinated response 

      Ibanez, Agustin; Santamaria-Garcia, Hernando; Guerrero Barragan, Alejandra; Kornhuber, Alexander; Mendonca Marques Ton, Alyne; Slachevsky, Andrea; Teixeira, Antonio Lucio; Mar Meza, Beatriz Marcela; Serrano, Cecilia M.; Cano, Carlos; Arias Gonzalez, Carolina; Gonzalez-Billault, Christian; Butler, Christopher; Bustin, Julian; Duran-Aniotz, Claudia; Acosta, Daisy; Matallana, Diana L.; Acosta-Alvear, Diego; Trépel, Dominic; Franca Resende, Elisa De Paula; Ferreira de Oliveira, Fabricio; Ibanez, Francisco; De Felice, Fernanda G.; Navarrete, Gorka; Tamañas, Ioannis; Meier, Irene B.; Smid, Jerusa; Llibre-Guerra, Jorge; Llibre-Rodriguez, Juan J.; Fajersztajn, Lais; Tadao Takada, Leonel; Duque, Lissette; Okada de Oliveira, Maira; Camargos Bicalho, Maria Aparecida; Behrens, Maria Isabel; Pintado-Caipa, Maritza; Parra, Mario; Z. Wilson, Maxwell; De La Cruz Puebla, Myriam; Custodio, Nilton; Santibanez, Rodrigo; Bernardo Serafim, Rodrigo; Melo Tavares, Ronnielly; Piña Escudero, Stefanie Danielle; Piña Escudero, Stefanie Danielle; Leon Rodriguez, Tomas; Dawson, Walter; Miller, Bruce L.; Kosik, Kenneth S. (Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 2020)
      The SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic will disproportionately impact countries with weak economies and vulnerable populations including people with dementia. Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs) are burdened with unstable ...

    • Latin American initiative for lifestyle intervention to prevent cognitive decline (LatAm-FINGERS): study design and harmonization 

      Crivelli, Lucia; Calandri, Luis; Kimie Suemoto, Claudia; Salinas, Rosa María; Velilla, Lina Marcela; Sanches Yassuda, Mônica; Caramelli, Paulo; Lopera, Francisco; Nitrini, Ricardo; Sevlever, Gustavo Emilio; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Acosta, Daisy; Charamelo Baietti, Ana María; Cusicanqui, María Isabel; Custodio, Nilton; De Simone, Sergio Dansilio; Delgado Derio, Carolina; Duque-Peñailillo, Lissette; Duran, Juan Carlos; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Leon-Salas, Jorge Mario; Bergamo, Yanina; Florencia Clarens, María; Damian, Andrés; Demey, Ignacio; Belén Helou, María; Márquez, Carlos; Martin, María Eugenia; Morais Martin, Maria da Graça; Querze, Diego; Surace, Ezequiel Ignacio; Acosta-Egea, Sabrina; Aguirre–Salvador, Esteban; da Cunha Peixoto Cançado, Gustavo Henrique; Dozzi Brucki; Dozzi Brucki, Sonia Maria; Vasconcelos Friedlaender, Clarisse; Braga Gomes, Karina; Gutierrez, Myriam; Laforcada Ríos, Carlos; Martinez Galindo, Joyce Graciela; Montesinos, Rosa; Nuñez-Herrera, Alberto; Ospina-Henao, Sebastián; Rodríguez, Guillermina; Ruiz Masson, Victoria; Sánchez, Mónica; Christian E. Schenk, Christian; Soto, Ligia; Tonidandel Barbosa, Maira; Gonçalves Tosatti, Jéssica Abdo; Vicuña, Yosselin; Espeland, Mark; Hakansson, Krister; Kivipelto, Miia; Baker, Laura; Snyder, Heather; Carrillo, María; Allegri, Ricardo Francisco (Alzheimer's Association®, 2023-05-19)
      Latin American Initiative for Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Cognitive Decline (LatAm-FINGERS) is the first non-pharmacological multicenter randomized clinical trial (RCT) to prevent cognitive impairment in Latin America ...

    • Leg length, skull circumference, and the incidence of dementia in Latin America and China: a 10/66 population-based cohort study 

      Prince, Martin J.; Acosta, Daisy; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jiménez- Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Dewey, Michael E.; Guerchet, Maelenn M.; Liu, Zhaorui; Llibre Guerra, Jorge J.; Prina, A. Matthew (PLOS ONE, 2018-04-18)
      Adult leg length is influenced by nutrition in the first few years of life. Adult head circumference is an indicator of brain growth. Cross-sectional studies indicate inverse associations with dementia risk, but there ...

    • Loneliness among older adults in Latin America, China, and India: prevalence, correlates and association with mortality 

      Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jimenez-Velazquez, Ivonne Z.; Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Williams, Joseph D.; Liu, Zhaorui; Acosta Castillo, Isaac; Mayston, Rosie; Gao, Qian; Prina, Matthew; Prince, Martin; Acosta, Daisy; Sosa, Ana Luisa (International Journal of Public Health, 2021-03)
      This study was designed to explore prevalence and correlates of selfreported loneliness and to investigate whether loneliness predicts mortality among older adults (aged 65 or above) in Latin America, China and India. The ...

    • Measuring disability across cultures the psychometric properties of the WHODAS II in older people from seven low- And middle-income countries. the 10/66 Dementia research group population-based survey 

      Sousa, Renata M.; Dewey, Michael E.; Acosta, Daisy; Jotheeswaran, A.T.; Castro-Costa, E.; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Rodríguez Pichardo, Guillermina; Ramírez, N. G.; Rodríguez, J. L.; Rodríguez, M. C.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D.; Prince, Martin J. (International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 2010)
      We evaluated the psychometric properties of the 12-item intervieweradministered screener version of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule – version II (WHODAS II) among older people living in seven ...

    • Mortality Rates and Mortality Risk Factors in Older Adults with Dementia from Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The 10/66 Dementia Research Group Population-Based Cohort Study 

      Piovezana, Ronaldo D; Oliveirab, Dèborah; Arias, Nicole; Acosta, Daisy; Prince, Martin J.; Ferria, Cleusa P. (Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 75 (2020) 581–593, 2020-03-09)
      Background: Dementia is the main cause of disability in older people living in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Monitoring mortality rates and mortality risk factors in people with dementia (PwD) may contribute ...

    • The Nairobi Declaration—Reducing the burden of dementia in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): Declaration of the 2022 Symposium on Dementia and Brain Aging in LMICs 

      Maestre, Gladys; Carrillo, Maria; Acosta, Daisy; Kalaria, Raj; Adams, Larry; Adoukonou, Thierry; Adoukonou, Thierry; Akinwande, Kazeem; Akinyemi, Joshua; Akinyemi, Rufus; Akpa, Onoja; Alladi, Suvarna; Allegri, Ricardo; Arizaga, Raul; Arshad, Faheem; Arulogun, Oyedunni; Babalola, David; Baiyewu, Olusegun; Bak, Thomas; Bellaj, Tarek; Boshe, Judith; Brayne, Carol; Brodie-Mends, David; Brown, Richard; Cahn, Jennifer; Cyrille, Nkouonlack; Damasceno, Albertino; de Silva, Ranil; de Silva, Rohan; Djibuti, Mamuka; Jane Dreyer, Anna; Ellajosyula, Ratnavalli; Farombi, Temitope; Fongang, Bernard; Forner, Stefania; Garza, Noe; Zacharoula Georgio, Eleni; Gouider, Riadh; Govia, Ishtar; Grinberg, Lea; Grinberg, Lea; Guerchet, Maëlenn; Gugssa, Seid; Gumikiriza-Onoria, Joy Louise; Gustafson, Deborah; Hogervorst, Eef; Ibanez, Agustin; Ihara, Masafumi; Ismail, Ozama; Issac, Thomas; Jönsson, Linus; Kaputu, Celestin; Karanja, Wambui; Karungi, Jackline; Tshala-Katumbay, Desire; Kunkle, Brian; H Lee, Joseph; Leroi, Iracema; Lewis, Raphaella; Livingston, Gill; Lopera, Francisco; Lwere, Kamada; Manes, Facundo; Mbakile-Mahlanza, Lingani; Mena, Pedro; Mille, Bruce; Millogo, Athanase; Mohamed, Abdul; Musyim, Christine; Mutiso, Victoria; Nakasujja, Noeline; Ndetei, David; Nightingale, Sam; K Njamnshi, Alfred; Novotni, Gabriela; Nyamayaro, Primrose; Nyame, Solomon; Ogeng'o, Julius; Ogunniyi, Adesola; Okada De Oliveira, Maira; Okubadejo, Njideka; Orrell, Martin; Orunmuyi, Akintunde; Owolabi, Mayowa; Paddick, Stella; Pericak-Vance, Margaret A; Pirtosek, Zvezdan; Potocnik, Felix; Preston, Bill; Raman, Rema; Ranchod, Kirti; Rizig, Mie; Rosselli, Monica; Deepa, Roy; Roy, Upal; Salokhiddinov, Marufjon; Sano, Mary; Sarfo, Fred; Satizabal, Claudia L; Sepulveda-Falla, Diego; Seshadri, Sudha; Sexton, Claire; Skoog, Ingmar; George-Hyslop, Peter St; Suemoto, Claudia; Tanne, Jeremy; Thapa, Prekshya; Toure, Kamadore; Ucheagwu, Valentine; Udeh-Momoh, Chinedu; Valcour, Victor; Vance, Jeffery; Varghese, Mathew; Vera, Jaime; Walker, Richard; Weidner, Wendy; Sebastian, Walsh; Whitehead Gay, Patrice; Zetterberg, Henrik; Zewde, Yared (Alzheimer's Association, 2023-03-11)
      Delegates of the 2022 Symposium on Dementia and Brain Aging in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, representing over 40 countries, met in Nairobi, Kenya, December 5–9 to highlight advances in dementia prevention, diagnosis, ...