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Your Questions Answered
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By
Jeremy Brown, MA, MB, BS, MRCP, MD, Consultant Neurologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Jonathan Hillam, MB, BS, BSc(Hons), MRCPsych, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Chatterton House, King's Lynn, Norfolk, UK
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Your Questions Answered,
Description
This book, written in the popular Q and A format of the YQA series will provide sufficient information for a primary care doctor to be able to understand and treat patients who have dementia.
Audience
Primary care physicians, nurses, trainees gerontologists, neurologists, and psychiatrists.
Contents
1. What is dementia? (definitions, causes, differential diagnosis).
2. Neuropsychological and neurological symptoms of dementia.
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Psychiatric and behavioural symptoms in dementia.
4. Assessment of dementia.
5. Reversible causes of dementia.
6. Management
of dementia.
7. Problems that carers and families face; elder abuse.
8. Services for patients with dementia and their carers.
9. Younger people with dementia; different ethnic groups; dementia and learning disability.
10. Dementia, ethics and the law.
11. Alzheimer's disease.
12. Vascular dementia.
13. Frontal lobe dementia.
14. Dementia and Parkinson's Disease.
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Dementia and other neurological diseases.
16. Dementia and alcohol.
17. Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
Selected references/further reading.
Appendices: Useful addresses & websites for self-help groups, voluntary organizations etc.
Glossary.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 288 pages, publication date: OCT-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07266-6
ISBN-10: 0-443-07266-3
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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