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Management of Dementia

Autor Serge Gauthier, Clive Ballard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2009
The second edition of Management of Dementia combines a balanced review of the latest knowledge and research in this area with practical guidance based on the authors' considerable personal experience in dementia care.
Topics include:
  • The diagnostic criteria of Parkinson’s disease dementia
  • Approaches to combat behavioural disturbances, depression, psychosis, and agitation
  • Suggestions for overcoming sleep disturbances
  • An update on the many genetic findings in Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies
  • Biological markers of Parkinson’s disease dementia
  • Symptomatic and disease-modifying treatments, including drugs and other potential preventive or stabilizing methods
  • Advice for managing the difficult later stages of dementia in long-term care
  • New assessment scales
  • Management of dementia using primary and secondary prevention
  • Drug treatments for patients with specific causes of dementia
  • Treatments based on an individual’s phenotypic and genetic features
Directed at practitioners who want to practice evidence-based medicine without losing sight of the patient, this volumr is designed to ensure physicians are dispensing the most appropriate pharmacology while also using other non-pharmacological treatments to their optimum effect. Concise and easy to read, the book provides readers with a full knowledge of the evolution of modern dementia care as well as the basis for understanding new developments as they occur.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781841846675
ISBN-10: 1841846678
Pagini: 172
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press
Locul publicării:Boca Raton, United States

Public țintă

Professional Practice & Development and Professional Reference

Cuprins

1. Diagnosis 2. Behavioural disturbances 3. Sleep disturbances 4. Genetics 5. Biomarkers 6. Symptomatic treatments for dementia 7. Disease-modifying treatments 8. Long-term care 9. Assessment scales in the management of Alzheimer’s disease 10. Future perspectives

Recenzii

"An excellent, helpful and practical book, and one that I greatly enjoyed. Unlike so many books I see, I believe I'll actually use this one." - Geriatrics and Aging (for the first edition)

"An excellent pocket reference." - The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences (for the first edition)

Descriere

This fully updated, concise and easy to read handbook combines a balanced review of the latest dementia knowledge, research and future developments with practical guidance based on the authors' considerable personal experience of dementia care.