Dementia / Jeremy Brown, Jonathan Hillam.
Material type: TextSeries: Your questions answeredPublication details: Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, 2004.Description: viii, 276 p. : ill., form ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780443072666 (pbk.) :
- 0443072663 (pbk.) :
- 616.83 BRO
- RC521
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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.