Full Description
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.
Contents
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
