Dementia - Therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Integrated dementia care in The Netherlands: a multiple case study of case management programmes.

30 Aug 2009 The number of dementia patients is growing, and they require a variety of services, making integrated care essential for the ability to continue living in the community. Many healthcare systems in developed countries are exploring new approaches for ... Read more...

Immunologically mediated dementias.

30 Aug 2009 Although most dementias are due to neurodegenerative or vascular disease, it is important to diagnose immunologically mediated dementias quickly because they can be both rapidly progressive and readily treatable. They usually affect function of ... Read more...

Discourses of dementia: a call for an ethnographic, action research approach to care in linguistically and culturally diverse environments.

24 Aug 2009 The methods of ethnography and action research have much to offer to the field of speech-language pathology, particularly as our clinical populations are becoming increasingly diverse. We suggest that practicing speech-language pathologists and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dementia - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Dying from dementia. 13 Oct 2009
• Ethical care in dementia. 30 Sep 2009
• More advice is needed in dementia care to deal with difficult treatment decisions, say experts. 29 Sep 2009
• Integrated dementia care in The Netherlands: a multiple case study of case management programmes. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving dementia treatment in care homes. 30 Aug 2009
• Bringing arts-based therapies in from the scientific cold. 30 Aug 2009
• Treating dementia: progress and promise. 30 Aug 2009
• Immunologically mediated dementias. 30 Aug 2009
• Discourses of dementia: a call for an ethnographic, action research approach to care in linguistically and culturally diverse environments. 24 Aug 2009
• Ethnic disparities in the treatment of dementia in veterans. 16 Aug 2009
• Use of Medicare and Department of Veterans Affairs health care by veterans with dementia: a longitudinal analysis. 11 Aug 2009
• JAMA patient page. Dementia. 10 Aug 2009
• Integrating care for older adults with cognitive impairment. 30 Jul 2009
• Understanding commissioning for non-commissioners. 30 Jul 2009
• Reminiscence groups for people with dementia and their family carers: pragmatic eight-centre randomised trial of joint reminiscence and maintenance versus usual treatment: a protocol. 28 Jul 2009
• Research on treating neuropsychiatric symptoms of advanced dementia with non-pharmacological strategies, 1998-2008: a systematic literature review. 7 Jul 2009
• Prevention of age-associated dementia. 29 Jun 2009
• Nonpharmacological intervention for agitation in dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Effects of Reiki on pain and anxiety in the elderly diagnosed with dementia: a series of case reports. 29 Jun 2009
• Portraits of caregivers of end-stage dementia patients receiving hospice care. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Dementia'

Definition: An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.

Descriptor UI: D003704

Alternative terms: Dementia; Dementias; Amentia; Amentias; Senile Paranoid Dementia; Dementias, Senile Paranoid; Paranoid Dementia, Senile; Paranoid Dementias, Senile; Senile Paranoid Dementias; Semantic Dementia; Dementia, Semantic; Dementias, Semantic; Semantic Dementias; Familial Dementia; Dementia, Familial; Dementias, Familial; Familial Dementias; Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration; Degeneration, Frontotemporal Lobar; Degenerations, Frontotemporal Lobar; Frontotemporal Lobar Degenerations; Lobar Degeneration, Frontotemporal; Lobar Degenerations, Frontotemporal;

Related Mesh Headings: Tauopathies;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.228.140.380; F03.087.400;

History Note: 1981(1963)