Dementia : your questions answered / Jeremy Brown, Jonathan Hillam.

Author/creator Brown, Jeremy
Other author Hillam, Jonathan.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoEdinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone, 2004.
Descriptionviii, 276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Subjects
Dementia--diagnosis.
Dementia--therapy.
Caregivers--psychology.

Contents What is dementia? -- The assessment of dementia -- Psychiatric symptoms and behavioural changes in dementia -- Reversible causes of dementia -- Non-pharmacological management of dementia -- Drug treatments in dementia -- Services for people with dementia -- Problems faced by carers and their families -- Dementia, ethics and the law -- Alzheimer's disease -- Vascular dementia -- Frontotemporal dementia -- Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and dementia -- Dementia and other neurological diseases -- Dementia and alcohol.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-254) and index.
LCCN 2003012986
ISBN0443072663 :

Availability

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Laupus Books - Stacks WM 220 B878D 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold