Management of Dementia

<p>The second edition of <b>Management of Dementia</b> 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. </p><p>Topics include:</p><ul> <ul> </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> </ul> </ul><p>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.</p>