Management of Dementia

Serge Gauthier author Clive Ballard author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:26th Aug '09

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Management of Dementia cover

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.

      "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)

      ISBN: 9781841846675

      Dimensions: unknown

      Weight: 272g

      172 pages

      2nd edition