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Ladislav Volicer
Researcher at University of South Florida
Publications - 295
Citations - 15048
Ladislav Volicer is an academic researcher from University of South Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Health care. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 294 publications receiving 14075 citations. Previous affiliations of Ladislav Volicer include University of Rhode Island & Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
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The Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia
Susan L. Mitchell,Joan M. Teno,Dan K. Kiely,Michele L. Shaffer,Richard N. Jones,Holly G. Prigerson,Ladislav Volicer,Jane L. Givens,Mary Beth Hamel +8 more
TL;DR: Patients with health care proxies who have an understanding of the prognosis and clinical course are likely to receive less aggressive care near the end of life, and these complications are associated with high 6-month mortality rates.
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Development and psychometric evaluation of the Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) scale.
TL;DR: The PAINAD is a simple, valid, and reliable instrument for measurement of pain in noncommunicative patients and has satisfactory reliability by internal consistency with a one factor solution.
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White paper defining optimal palliative care in older people with dementia: a Delphi study and recommendations from the European Association for Palliative Care.
Jenny T. van der Steen,Lukas Radbruch,Cees M.P.M. Hertogh,Marike E. De Boer,Julian C. Hughes,Philip Larkin,Anneke L. Francke,Saskia Jünger,Dianne Gove,Pam Firth,Raymond T.C.M. Koopmans,Ladislav Volicer +11 more
TL;DR: The first definition of palliative care in dementia based on evidence and consensus is provided, a framework to provide guidance for clinical practice, policy and research.
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Head injury and the risk of AD in the MIRAGE study
Z. Guo,L. A. Cupples,Alexander Kurz,Sanford Auerbach,Ladislav Volicer,Helena C. Chui,Robert C. Green,A D Sadovnick,Ranjan Duara,Charles DeCarli,Keith A. Johnson,Rodney C.P. Go,John H. Growdon,Jonathan L. Haines,Walter A. Kukull,Lindsay A. Farrer +15 more
TL;DR: The influence of head injury on the risk of AD appears to be greater among persons lacking APOE-ε4 compared with those having one or two ε4 alleles, suggesting that these risk factors may have a common biologic underpinning.
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Assessment of discomfort in advanced Alzheimer patients
TL;DR: An objective scale for measuring discomfort in noncommunicative patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease was empirically generated from the perspectives of nursing staff practicing on special care Alzheimer units and was judged to have content validity and was reduced to nine items.