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Main description:
With people living longer, dementia is now at the forefront of medical research. In answer to this changing trend, Long-Term Management of Dementia presents a stand-alone resource for diagnosis, treatment, and management issues for the patient suffering from this debilitating disease.
Topics covered include:
- Social, legal, economic, and ethical dilemmas
- Functional abilities
- Driving and the dementia patient
- Hygiene and nutritional concerns
- Supervision models
- Medical complications
Neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, nurses, and social workers, along with family members of those suffering will find this book a valuable resource for understanding this disorder.
Contents:
Scope of dementia: epidemiology and public health impact
Patricia A. Boyle and David A. Bennett
Diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and dementia
Maria Kataki
Pharmacotherapy of cognition
David S. Geldmacher
Behavior management in dementia
Douglas W. Scharre
Management of function: instrumental activities of daily living
Catherine Anne Bare and Martha S. Cameron
Management of function: basic activities of daily living
Gail A. Greenley
Health economics and financial decision making
Christopher Leibman and Trent McLaughlin
The primary care physician’s role in the recognition, diagnosis, and management of dementia
Larry W. Lawhorne
Ethical issues in dementia
Caroline N. Harada and Greg A. Sachs
Legal issues in dementia
Marshall B. Kapp
Caregiver stress and possible solutions
Mary D. Dodge and Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
Local and national resource listing
Nancy Theado-Miller
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
Publication date: November, 2010
Pages: 264
Weight: 1g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Neurology
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