Buch, Englisch, 397 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 771 g
Problems, Prospects, and Perspectives
Buch, Englisch, 397 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 771 g
ISBN: 978-1-4615-6416-4
Verlag: Springer US
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Research
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Weitere Infos & Material
Diagnosis and Early Detection.- BEHAVE-AD: A Clinical Rating Scale for the Assessment of Pharmocologically Remediable Behavioral Symptomatology in Alzheimer’s Disease.- Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease by Dermatoglyphic Discriminants.- Dementia, Depression, and Pseudodementia.- The Epidemiology of the Concurrence of Depression and Dementia.- Cognitive Function and Brain-Adrenal Axis Activity in Aging, Depression and Dementia.- Etiology and Pathophysiology.- From Family Studies to Molecular Hypothesis in Alzheimer’s Dementia.- Scrapie Prions, Amyloid Placques, and a Possible Link With Alzheimer’s Disease.- Alzheimer’s Disease, Down Syndrome, and Parkinson’s Disease: Selected Pathologic Features.- Neurotransmitters in the Ageing Brain and Dementia.- Sleep, EEG and Sleep Disorders in Alzheimer’s Disease.- Treatment Strategies.- On Possible Relationships Between Alzheimer’s Disease, Age-Related Memory Loss and the Development of Animal Models.- Serotonin, Alzheimer’s Disease and Learning and Memory in Animals.- Intracranial Cholinergic Drug Infusion in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease.- Neural Implants: A Strategy for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease.- Treatment of the Depressed Elderly Patient.- Status of Alzheimer Disease Research.- Primary Care/Physicians.- Gatekeepers: Changing Roles and Responsibilities for Primary Care Physicians with Aging Family Systems.- ADRDA and the Physician.- Home Health Care for Victims of Alzheimer’s Disease.- Nursing.- Understanding Progressive Dementia: Making a Case for the Case History.- Exercise Treatment for Wandering Behavior.- The Relationship Between Confusion and Abuse.- A Systematic Approach to the Nursing Care of Acutely Ill Geriatric Patients with Cognitive Impairment.- Urine Control in Patients with Chronic Degenerative Brain Disease.- Cognitive Psychopathology and the Phenomenon of Wandering: Research and Clinical Nursing Approaches.- Sleep and Dementia: Nursing Care Considerations.- Nursing Care of the Human with Cognitive Loss.- Patient Behavior, Care Needs, Personalized Community Resources of Both Institutionalized and Non-Institutionalized Alzheimer’s Patients.- The Family.- Creating Ties and Maintaining Support: Networking and Self Help.- The Family Caregiving Role: Stresses and Effective Coping.- Patterns of Functioning and Coping in Black Families: Caring for Physically Disabled Elders.- Designing Services for the Minority Aged.- Environmental Design and Mentally Impaired Older People.- Overcoming Problems in Modifying the Environment.- Public Policy/Legal and Ethical Issues.- When to Discontinue Home Care: The Caregiving Family’s Dilemma.- Developing Institutional Policies to Obviate Agonizing Over Complex Ethical Dilemmas.- Alzheimer’s Disease: Legal Issues.- Clarifying Who Decides.- Legislative Advocacy and Alzheimer’s Disease: The California Experience.- A Public Policy Design Strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease.- Public Policy and Long Term Care: Domestic and International Perspectives.- Contributors.