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Your Questions Answered
Jeremy M. Brown, Jonathan Hillam
ISBN: 9780443072666
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Elsevier Health Sciences
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Written by a neurologist and a psychiatrist, this book covers almost all types of dementia, including Alzheimer's Disease. It helps GPs and other family care practitioners provide early diagnosis and treatment to the patients suffering from dementia. It also includes information on services and sources of further help for dementia sufferers.
There are over one million people in the UK alone suffering from some form of dementia. Cures for dementia are still a long way off, but if diagnosed early enough there are treatments available which delay the onset of the disease and provide a better quality of life. The key to treatment is early diagnosis, and it is here that GPs and family care practitioners need help. This book, written by a neurologist and a psychiatrist in the Q and A format of the series, covers all types of dementia, including Alzheimer's Disease, and will help GPs and other family care practitioners provide early diagnosis and treatment to the millions of patients suffering from dementia. It also includes useful information on services and sources of further help for dementia sufferers and their carers.
| ISBN | 0443072663 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780443072666
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Elsevier Health Sciences | | Weight (grammes) | 375 | | Imprint | Churchill Livingstone | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Your Questions Answered | | Publication date | 14 Oct 2003 | | Height (mm) | 280 | | Non-book description | book | | Width (mm) | 210 | | Library of Congress | RC521 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY | 616.83 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | How to use this book | | | | 1 | | What is dementia? | | 1 | | 2 | | The assessment of dementia | | 15 | | 3 | | Psychiatric symptoms and behavioural changes in dementia | | 45 | | 4 | | Reversible causes of dementia | | 57 | | 5 | | Non-pharmacological management of dementia | | 73 | | 6 | | Drug treatments in dementia | | 83 | | 7 | | Services for people with dementia | | 97 | | 8 | | Problems faced by carers and their families | | 111 | | 9 | | Dementia, ethics and the law | | 121 | | 10 | | Alzheimer's disease | | 133 | | 11 | | Vascular dementia | | 149 | | 12 | | Frontotemporal dementia | | 163 | | 13 | | Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and dementia | | 181 | | 14 | | Dementia and other neurological diseases | | 203 | | 15 | | Dementia and alcohol | | 217 | | 16 | | Human prion diseases | | 221 | | | | Glossary | | 233 | | App. 1 | | The Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE) | | 235 | | App. 2 | | Drugs used in the treatment of dementia | | 239 | | App. 3 | | Organizations for professionals, sufferers and carers | | 245 | | | | App. 4: Selected references and further reading | | 253 | | | | List of patient questions | | 255 | | | | Index | | 259 |
"For information about all types of dementia, this is the book that GPs should go for." "Dr J M Sager, GP Leeds", Medix UK website, November 2003  Be the first to write a customer review
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