Full Description
The APA Handbook of Dementia addresses assessment, comorbidity, evaluation, and treatment of various forms of dementia. The handbook reviews common dementias including Alzheimer amp rsquo s disease, Lewy body disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and other less common dementias. It is organized into sections discussing diagnosis, epidemiology, and neurobiology (including neuropathology and neuroimaging) assessment, including cultural issues, methodology, and neuropsychology and primary, secondary, and tertiary intervention strategies. The handbook is intended as a resource for all psychologists and other health professionals that serve persons and families impacted by neurodegenerative disease.
Contents
Editorial Board
About the Editor-in-Chief
Contributors
A Note from the Publisher
Introduction to the Handbook
I. Foundations: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, and Neurobiology
Contemporary Research Criteria for Dementia
Marilyn S. Albert
Epidemiology of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Brenda Plassman and Guy G. Potter
The Neuropathology of Dementia
Melissa E. Murray and Michael Deture
Traumatic Brain Injury and Repetitive Brain Trauma: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Dementia Syndromes
Breton M. Asken and Russell M. Bauer
Brain Imaging in Dementia and Antecedent Conditions
Sterling C. Johnson
II. Assessment: Cultural Issues, Methodology, and the Neuropsychology of Dementia
Assessment of Cognition in African American Older Adults
David Freedman and Jennifer J. Manly
Assessment of Age-Related Cognitive Changes in Chinese and Chinese-American Older Adults
June Yu Paltzer
Neuropsychological Assessment of Spanish-Speaking Older Adults
Otto Pedraza
Widely Disseminated Tools for the Assessment of Populations at Risk for Dementia
Sandra Weintraub and Stephanie Kielb
Aging and Everyday Functioning: Measurement, Correlates, and Future Directions
Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe and Sarah Tomaszewski Farias
Financial and Medical Decision Making Capacity in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
Kristen L. Triebel, Adam Gerstenecker, and Daniel C. Marson
Quality of Life in Dementia: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Psychosocial Treatment Implications
Rebecca G. Logsdon and Linda Teri
Clinical Assessment of Alzheimer's Disease
Emily C. Edmonds, David P. Salmon, and Mark W. Bondi
Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment in Older Adults with Lewy Body Disease and Parkinson's Disease
Julie A. Fields
Clinical Neuropsychology of Frontotemporal Dementia
Christa L. Watson, Jessica M. Foley, and Joel H. Kramer
Neuropsychological Evaluation for Vascular Dementia
David J. Libon, Melissa Lamar, Catherine C. Price, Angela Jefferson, Rodney Swenson, and Rhoda Au
Neuropsychology of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders
Lisa L. Barnes and S. Duke Han
III. Intervention: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention Strategies
Cognitive Reserve: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence
Daniel Barulli and Yaakov Stern
Social and Behavioral Factors Associated with Risk of Developing Dementia
Robert S. Wilson and Patricia A. Boyle
The Effects of Physical Activity on Cognition, Dementia Risk, and Brain Health
Sasha N. Skinner, Matthew P. Ellis, and Judy Pa
Cognitive Remediation Approaches and Dementia Prevention: Findings from the ACTIVE Trial and Related Research
Sherry L. Willis
Does Cognitive Training Reduce Risk for Dementia?
Elizabeth M. Zelinski
Evidence Supporting Common Cognitive Rehabilitation Techniques in Cognitively Symptomatic Older Adults
Benjamin M. Hampstead, Emily M. Briceño, and Sarah Garcia
Memory Compensation in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
Melanie J. Chandler and Anne L. Shandera-Ochsner
Multicomponent Approaches to Secondary Prevention of Dementia
Kelly J. Murphy
Disclosing a Neurodegenerative Diagnosis: The Complexities of Telling and Hearing
Brian D. Carpenter and Jonathan Gooblar
Treating Comorbidities in Dementia: Depression
Vonetta M. Dotson, Sarah M. Szymkowicz, and Molly E. McLaren
Sleep in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
Jennifer Rose V. Molano
Assessment and Pharmacological Management of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in Dementia
Maria M. Reyes and Bruce Sutor
Support Groups and Dementia
Tai L. Sims and Joseph E. Gaugler
Education for Informal Dementia Caregivers
Kenneth Hepburn, Mariya Kovaleva, and Carolyn Clevenger
Risks for Elder Abuse Among Persons with Dementia
Karen A. Roberto and Kirby Deater-Deckard
Person-Centered Care as Treatment for Dementia
Cameron J. Camp, Michelle S. Bourgeois, and Jérôme Erkes
Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the Context of Dementia
Rebecca S. Allen, Fei Sun, Hillary R. Dorman, and Amy E. Albright
