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Practical Dementia Care

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ISBN-10: 0195169786

ISBN-13: 9780195169782

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Peter V. Rabins, Constantine G. Lyketsos, Cynthia D. Steele

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This is a comprehensive yet practical guide to the care and management of patients with dementia from the time of diagnosis to the end of life. For the Second Edition, the authors have added a chapter on mild cognitive impairment and expanded their coverage of the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of dementia; the pathophysiology of common and uncommon causes of dementia, especially Alzheimer disease; non-drug treatment for dementia symptoms; pharmacologic therapy for dementia; psychiatric symptoms of dementia and their treatment (especially medication treatment); and dementia in special environments (especially assisted living and nursing homes). Also new for this edition is an…    
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List price: $59.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/19/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Nancy L. Mace, M.A., now retired, was a consultant to and a member of the board of directors of the Alzheimer's Association and an assistant in psychiatry and coordinator of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is coauthor of Teaching Dementia Care: Skill and Understanding, also published by Johns Hopkins. Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of psychiatry, with joint appointments in medicine, mental health, and health policy and management, co-director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, and director of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price…    

Cynthia D. Steele MPH, RN, is Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing, as well as Senior Faculty, The Copper Ridge Institute.Involved with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for more than 20 years, Steele is an assistant professor of psychiatry, a faculty associate at JHU's School of Nursing, co-director of JHU's neuropsychiatry clinic and a senior faculty member at the Copper Ridge Institute. In all of these endeavors, she immerses herself in Alzheimer's and related conditions such as dementia. Steele wrote The Family Guideline Series for Dementia Care” and she established the…    

Preface to Second Edition
Introduction
Definitions and Overview of the Book
The Evaluation and Formulation of Dementia
Diseases Causing a Cortical Pattern of Dementia
Diseases Typically Causing Subcortical or Mixed Pattern Dementias
Overview of Dementia Care
Supportive Care for the Patient with Dementia
Supporting the Family and Care Provider
Non-Cognitive Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders
Non-Cognitive Functional Disorders and Disturbances in Sleeping, Eating, and Sexuality
Pharmacologic and Other Biologic Treatments in Dementia
Prevention, Early Detection and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
Terminal Care
Clinical Genetics and Dementia
Glossary References
Appendices