The Psychiatric Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

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THE PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
This important and ground-breaking book offers a new approach for understanding and treating Alzheimer's disease. Although there is no cure for this illness, treatment is available for the behavioral and psychosocial problems associated with the course of the disease.
Written primarily for physicians, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who treat people with Alzheimer's disease, this book is also important reading for anyone who has a family member with the infirmity to learn what can be done to alleviate patient suffering and help reduce family burden and stress.
Prepared by the Committee on Aging of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, an organization of eminent psychiatrists, this report represents the current state of the art in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. It begins with a brief summary of the search for the causes of this debilitating illness, and then describes... Tovább

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THE PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
This important and ground-breaking book offers a new approach for understanding and treating Alzheimer's disease. Although there is no cure for this illness, treatment is available for the behavioral and psychosocial problems associated with the course of the disease.
Written primarily for physicians, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who treat people with Alzheimer's disease, this book is also important reading for anyone who has a family member with the infirmity to learn what can be done to alleviate patient suffering and help reduce family burden and stress.
Prepared by the Committee on Aging of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, an organization of eminent psychiatrists, this report represents the current state of the art in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. It begins with a brief summary of the search for the causes of this debilitating illness, and then describes its clinical progression. A thorough presentation of the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease also details the many other diseases that can be confused with or can confound the symptoms of the illness. The uses of psychotherapeutic and psychosocial treatments, including family therapy, behavioral interventions, and medication, and the role of the treatment setting and of the psychiatrist are all discussed in depth.
Ten illustrative case examples illuminate our understanding of the progress of the disease and its treatment. The report concludes with a brief bibliography, five rating scales used by therapists to help evaluate patients' levels of functioning, and
index.
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