We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
To save content items to your account,
please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies.
If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account.
Find out more about saving content to .
To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org
is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings
on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part
of your Kindle email address below.
Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations.
‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi.
‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
The fact that Alzheimer dementia is the sixth leading cause of death in adults aged 65 years or older in the United States [1] requires that the forensic pathologist, clinician, and medicolegal death investigator be familiar with the clinical manifestations of dementia and the appropriate postmortem evaluation for definitive classification. It has been shown that dementia, in general, is under-reported on death certificates [2], and its contribution to death may not be well-recognized.
A complete forensic autopsy includes examination of the brain. When the decedent is elderly, the procedures for the macroscopic examination and the decisions about selecting areas for microscopic examination follow the same general principles that guide other forensic cases. In addition, however, the pathologist should also be able to recognize incidental age-related changes and to understand how the presentation of different disease processes may vary in the geriatric population.