Fast Facts: Dementia

Lawrence J Whalley, John Cs Breitner (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

116 Seiten

2009 | 2nd edition
Health Press Limited (Verlag)
978-1-903734-17-9 (ISBN)

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The number of people with dementia is expected to quadruple by 2050. Because of its high prevalence and level of associated morbidity, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease in particular, is already an urgent health and economic issue for the developed world, and a rapidly growing threat in developing countries.

This thoroughly updated second edition of Fast Facts: Dementia specifically aims to provide the primary care physician and other members of the healthcare team with the information they need to recognize and evaluate dementia and to provide optimum management and long-term care.

- Offers a succinct review of the process of brain aging and its relationship to neurodegenerative disease.
- Reviews the cause, course and treatment of each of the common illnesses that can provoke the dementia syndrome.
- Enables the clinician to recognize the disease and to appreciate the basic principles of investigation and management.
- Includes practical steps that the healthcare team can take to improve long-term care of patients and, perhaps, disease prevention

Basic neuroscience
The aging brain
Symptoms, signs and course
Neuropsychiatric complications
Clinical examination and investigations
Principles of care and treatment
Pharmacological treatment
Epidemiology of the dementing illnesses
Hypotheses on the causes of Alzheimer's disease
Future treatments

Zusatzinfo	18 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Abingdon
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 208 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
ISBN-10	1-903734-17-7 / 1903734177
ISBN-13	978-1-903734-17-9 / 9781903734179
Zustand	Neuware