Clinical Trajectories at the End of Life in Autopsy-Confirmed Dementia Patients With Alzheimer Disease and Lewy Bodies Pathologies

• Published in: Neurology Vol. 98; no. 21; p. e2140
• Main Authors: Gu, Yian, Kociolek, Anton, Fernandez, Kayri K, Cosentino, Stephanie A, Zhu, Carolyn Wei, Jin, Zhezhen, Leverenz, James B, Stern, Yaakov B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 24.05.2022
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Alzheimer Disease - psychology; Autopsy; Cohort Studies; Death; Humans; Lewy Bodies - pathology; Lewy Body Disease - pathology; Longitudinal Studies; Prospective Studies; Retrospective Studies

Evaluating and understanding the heterogeneity in dementia course has important implications for clinical practice, health care decision-making, and research. However, inconsistent findings have been reported with regard to the disease courses of the 2 most common dementias: Alzheimer disease (AD) a...