Product Description: Part of the Oxford Neurology Library series, this second edition of Alzheimer's Disease is a succinct and practical introduction to the diagnosis, evaluation and management of Alzheimer's disease. This practical pocketbook contains 14 fully updated chapters on key topics such as pathophysiology, epidemiology, pharmacological treatments, and psychological symptoms...read more

Product Description: Written by leading authorities in the field, this book describes the cognitive changes associated with age, the earliest detectable stages of Alzheimer’s, and the relationship of these conditions to MCI. The authors review the latest advances in our understanding of MCI, its prevalence, evaluation, management, and outcomes and in so doing provide practising physicians with a useful resource that assists them in identifying those MCI patients who will progress to recognised Alzheimer’s Disease...read more

Offers a theoretical overview which describes the management structures that can be encountered by psychiatry clinicians. This book covers the Mental Health Services National Service Framework (NSF), financial management and manpower planning. It also covers issues such as: clinical governance, ethics and confidentiality, and users' expectations.

The later stages of dementia are as important, if not more so, as the earlier stages, since they harbour unique characteristics and events, which profoundly affect the lives of patients and their carers. Severe dementia has not had a high profile in the clinical literature as until recently prognosis was poor and there were few beneficial interventions. With the recent licensing of memantine, clinicians finally have a drug option that will delay disease progression.  Severe Dementia is the first book to focus exclusively on severe dementia. It addresses both the clinical features of the disease and the social aspects of care. Introductory chapters on the differential diagnosis, neurochemistry and molecular pathology of severe dementia set the scene for the clinical discussion. Detailed clinical chapters on cognitive function, depression, physical effects, staging and function follow. All therapeutic interventions are then discussed, including memantine, anticholinesterases, neuroleptics and non-pharmacological treatment. The final chapters review the social and economic aspects of dementia care, including family involvement, person-centered care, palliative care, ethics and health economics. Written and edited by experts in geriatric psychiatry and geriatrics, Severe Dementia is of value to all clinicians involved in the management of this complex and vulnerable group of patients. It is also of interest to general practitioners and carers in nursing homes.

Product Description: The European Dementia Consensus Network (EDCON) was formed by opinion leaders from the fields of old-age psychiatry and neurology in order to evaluate and improve the clinical management of patients with dementia across the continent...read more

Product Description: The European Dementia Consensus Network (EDCON) was formed by opinion leaders from the fields of old-age psychiatry and neurology in order to evaluate and improve the clinical management of patients with dementia across the continent...read more

Product Description: A unique compendium of more than 200 assessment scales, this second edition of Assessment Scales in Old Age Psychiatry is an indispensable guide for assessing the mental health problems of the elderly and the effects that such problems may have on patients' functional ability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The 'In Practice' series has been devised by the Royal Society of Medicine Press to present clearcut and accessible opinion-leader advice and summary facts relevant to everyday clinical practice in both primary and secondary care. This particular volume focuses on dementia and depression.

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Product Description: (Martin Dunitz) Douglas Hospital, Verdun, Canada. Pocket-sized text emphasizing diagnosis and manage ment of Alzheimer's disease in general practice. This edition includes results from randomized clinical studies and guidelines for drug utilization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Dementia is one of the most important clinical conditions in modern medicine. In the elderly, it is a common condition, numerically dwarfing other, better known, diseases. Advances in the last decade have been numerous both in the breadth of clinical assessment of patient, the use of adjuvant investigations and significantly in the basic biology of a number of disorders...read more

Product Description: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This book provides a unique insight into the clinical features and prognosis of late onset Alzheimer's disease. It provides a summary of the results of a longitudinal study of patients suffering from Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer type...read more