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: <ul>
<li>The diagnostic criteria of Parkinson’s disease dementia </li> <li>Approaches to combat behavioural disturbances, depression, psychosis, and agitation </li> <li>Suggestions for overcoming sleep disturbances </li> <li>An update on the many genetic findings in Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies </li> <li>Biological markers of Parkinson’s disease dementia </li> <li>Symptomatic and disease-modifying treatments, including drugs and other potential preventive or stabilizing methods </li> <li>Advice for managing the difficult later stages of dementia in long-term care </li> <li>New assessment scales </li> <li>Management of dementia using primary and secondary prevention </li> <li>Drug treatments for patients with specific causes of dementia </li> <li>Treatments based on an individual’s phenotypic and genetic features </li> </ul>
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.

Management of Dementia

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gauthier, Serge

Ballard, Clive

Diseases & Physical Ailments

CRC-Press

Psychosis affects nearly 50% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). It is a major therapeutic challenge, as a balance needs to be found between the PD medications that can exacerbate psychotic symptoms and the antipsychotics that may worsen motor function. Focusing on the most common side effects of PD medications, namely visual hallucinations and delusions, this highly readable handbook will increase readers' awareness of: * the various presentations of psychosis in PD * modifiable risk factors * prescribing that balances the benefits and potential harms. Detailed case studies and evidence-based guidance for practical application make 'Fast Facts: Psychosis in Parkinson's Disease' an invaluable resource for all healthcare professionals responsible for the outpatient care of patients with PD, including neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, psychiatric nurse practitioners, specialist PD nurses and primary care providers.

Fast Facts - Psychosis in Parkinson's Disease: Finding the Right Therapeutic Balance.

Medical Books

Friedman, Joseph H.

Medicine

S Karger Ag

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