Dementia in the oldest old: Beyond Alzheimer disease

PLoS Med. 2017 Mar 21;14(3):e1002263. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002263. eCollection 2017 Mar.

Authors

Aimee L Pierce^{1

2}, Claudia H Kawas^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America.
² Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America.
³ Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America.

Abstract

In a Perspective, Aimee Pierce and Claudia Kawas discuss risk factors and pathologies of dementia in the oldest-old.

MeSH terms

Aged, 80 and over
Alzheimer Disease / epidemiology
Alzheimer Disease / etiology
Dementia / epidemiology*
Dementia / etiology*
Humans
Risk Factors*

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.