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Dementia / Jeremy Brown, Jonathan Hillam.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Your questions answeredPublication details: Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, 2004.Description: viii, 276 p. : ill., form ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780443072666 (pbk.) :
  • 0443072663 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.83 BRO
LOC classification:
  • RC521
Contents:
1. What is dementia? -- 2. The assessment of dementia --3. Psychiatric symptoms and behavioural changes in dementia --4. Reversible causes of dementia -- 5. Non-pharmacological management of dementia --6. Drug treatments in dementia --7. Services for people with dementia --8. Problems faced by carers and their families --9. Dementia, ethics and the law -- 10. Alzheimer\'s disease --11. Vascular dementia --12. Frontotemporal dementia --13. Parkinson\'s disease, Huntington\'s disease and dementia --14. Dementia and other neurological diseases --15. Dementia and alcohol--16. Human prion diseases.
Summary: Written in the question and answer format of the YQA series, this title provides sufficient information for a primary care doctor to be able to understand and treat patients who have dementia. It covers commonplace and rarer issues and includes information on websites and organizations.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 616.83 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 205593
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 616.83 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 205592

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-254) and index.

1. What is dementia? -- 2. The assessment of dementia --3. Psychiatric symptoms and behavioural changes in dementia --4. Reversible causes of dementia -- 5. Non-pharmacological management of dementia --6. Drug treatments in dementia --7. Services for people with dementia --8. Problems faced by carers and their families --9. Dementia, ethics and the law -- 10. Alzheimer\'s disease --11. Vascular dementia --12. Frontotemporal dementia --13. Parkinson\'s disease, Huntington\'s disease and dementia --14. Dementia and other neurological diseases --15. Dementia and alcohol--16. Human prion diseases.

Written in the question and answer format of the YQA series, this title provides sufficient information for a primary care doctor to be able to understand and treat patients who have dementia. It covers commonplace and rarer issues and includes information on websites and organizations.

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