Dementia and Alzheimer's disease: An estimate of prevalent and incident cases in Germany;Demenzsyndrom und Alzheimer krankheit: Eine schatzung des krankenbestandes und der jahrlichen neuerkrankungen in Deutschland

Gesundheitswesen

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 211-218

  Bickel, Horst ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's Disease; Dementia; Incidence; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 0034043939     PISSN: 09413790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-10858     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Statistisches Bundesamt. Statistisches Jahrbuch 1998 für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Wiesbaden: Metzler Poeschel, 1998
2. Häfner H, Löffler W. Die Entwicklung der Anzahl von Altersdemenzkranken und Pflegebedürftigkeit in den kommenden 50 Jahren - eine demographische Projektion auf der Basis epidemiologischer Daten für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (alte Bundesländer). Das öffentliche Gesundheitswesen 1991; 53: 681-686
3. Wernicke TF, Reischies FM. Prevalence of dementia in old age: clinical diagnoses in subjects aged 95 years and older. Neurology 1994; 44: 250-253
4. Reischies FM, Geiselmann B, Geßner R, Kanowski S, Wagner M, Wernicke F, Helmchen H. Demenz bei Hochbetagten. Ergebnisse der Berliner Altersstudie. Nervenarzt 1997; 68: 719-729
5. Cooper B, Bickel H. Prävalenz und Inzidenz von Demenzerkrankungen in der Altenbevölkerung. Ergebnisse einer populations-bezogenen Längsschnittstudie in Mannheim. Nervenarzt 1989; 6: 472-482
6. Bickel H, Cooper B. Incidence and relative risk of dementia in an urban elderly population: findings of a prospective field study. Psychological Medicine 1994; 24: 179-192
7. Fichter MM, Meiler I, Schröppel H, Steinkirchner R. Dementia and cognitive impairment in the oldest old in the community. Prevalence and comorbidity. British Journal of Psychiatry 1995; 166: 621-629
8. Fichter MM, Schröppel H, Meller I. Incidence of dementia in a Munich community sample of the oldest old. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 1996; 246: 320-328
9. Jorm AF, Korten AE, Henderson AS. The prevalence of dementia: A quantitative integration of the literature. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 1987; 76: 465-479
10. Hofman A, Rocca WA, Brayne C, Breteler MMB, Clarke M, Cooper B, Copeland JRM, Dartigues JF, Da Silva Droux A, Hagnell O, Heeren TJ, Engedal K, Jonker C, Lindesay J, Lobo A, Mann AH, Mölsä PK, Morgan K, O'Connor DW, Sulkava R, Kay DWK, Amaducci L. The prevalence of dementia in Europe: A collaborative study of 1980-1990 findings. International Journal of Epidemiology 1991; 2: 736-748
11. Rocca WA, Hofman A, Brayne C, Breteler MMB, Clarke M, Copeland JRM, Dartigues J-F, Engedal K, Hagnell O, Heeren TJ, Jonker C, Lindesay J, Lobo A, Mann AH, Mölsä PK, Morgan K, O'Connor DW, da Silva Droux A, Sulkava R, Kay DWK, Amaducci L. Frequency and distribution of Alzheimer's disease in Europe: a collaborative study of 1980-1990 prevalence findings. Annals of Neurology 1991; 3: 381-390
12. Canadian Study of Health and Aging Working Group. Canadian Study of Health and Aging: study methods and prevalence of dementia. Canadian Medical Association Journal 1994; 15: 899-913
13. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Washington: American Psychiatric Association, 1987
14. McKhann G, Drachman D, Folstein M, Katzman R, Price D, Stadlan EM. Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: Report of the NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease. Neurology 1984; 34: 939-944
15. Ritchie K, Kildea D. Is senile dementia "age-related" or "ageing-related"? - evidence from meta-analysis of dementia prevalence in the oldest old. Lancet 1995; 346: 931-934
16. Ott A, Breteler MMB, van Harskamp F, Claus JJ, van der Cammen TJM, Grobbee DE, Hofman A. Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: association with education. The Rotterdam study. British Medical Journal 1995; 31: 970-973
17. Bickel H. Demenzen im Alter: Eine populationsbezogene Untersuchung von Verteilung, Versorgung und Risikofaktoren. Abschlussbericht an das Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie, 1995
18. Bickel H. Pflegebedürftigkeit im Alter. Ergebnisse einer populationsbezogenen retrospektiven Längsschnittstudie. Das Gesundheitswesen 1996; 58: 56-62
19. Hughes CP, Berg L, Danziger WL, Coben LA, Martin RL. A new clinical scale for the staging of dementia. British Journal of Psychiatry 1982; 14: 566-572
20. Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS) Cognitive function and dementia in six areas of England and Wales: the distribution of MMSE and prevalence of GMS organicity level in the MRC CFA Study. Psychological Medicine 1998; 28: 319-335
21. Copeland JRM, Dewey ME, Griffith-Jones HM. Computerised psychiatric diagnostic system and case nomenclature for elderly subjects: GMS and AGECAT. Psychological Medicine 1986; 16: 89-99
22. Gao S, Hendrie HC, Hall KS, Hui S. The relationships between age, sex, and the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer disease. Archives of General Psychiatry 1998; 55: 809-815
23. Jorm AF, Jolley D. The incidence of dementia. A meta-analysis. Neurology 1998; 51: 728-733
24. Rocca WA, Cha RH, Waring SC, Kokmen E. Incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: a reanalysis of data from Rochester, Minnesota, 1975-1984. American Journal of Epidemiology 1998; 148: 51-62
25. Launer LJ, Andersen K, Dewey ME, Letenneur L, Ott A, Amaducci LA, Brayne C, Copeland JRM, Dartigues J-F, Kragh-Sorensen P, Lobo A, Martinez-Lage JM, Stijnen T, Hofman A. Rates and risk factors for dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Results from EURODEM pooled analyses. Neurology 1999; 52: 78-84
26. Bickel H. Deskriptive Epidemiologie der Demenzen. In: Helmchen H, Henn F, Lauter H, Sartorius N (Hrsg.). Psychiatrie der Gegenwart, Bd. 4, Psychische Störungen bei somatischen Krankheiten. Heidelberg: Springer, 1999: 33-52
27. Bickel H. Demenzkranke in Alten- und Pflegeheimen: Gegenwärtige Situation und Entwicklungstendenzen. In: Forschungs-institut der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Medizinische und gesellschaftspolitische Herausforderung: Alzheimer Krankheit. Der langsame Zerfall der Persönlichkeit (Hrsg.). Bonn: FriedrichEbert-Stiftung, 1995: 49-68
28. Newens AJ, Forster DP, Kay DWK, Kirkup W, Bates D, Edwardson J. Clinically diagnosed presenile dementia of the Alzheimer type in the Northern Health Region: ascertainment, prevalence, incidence and survival. Psychological Medicine 1993; 23: 631-644