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Dementia - dĭmĕnˈshə [Lat.,=being out of the mind], progressive deterioration of intellectual faculties resulting in apathy, confusion, and stupor. In the 17th cent. the term was synonymous with insanity, and the term dementia praecox was used in the 19th cent. to describe the condition now known as schizophrenia. In recent years, the term has


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    Interventions in Dementia Care: Toward Improving Quality of Life » Read Now

    by M. Powell Lawton, Robert L. Rubinstein. 182 pgs.

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    ...Interventions in Dementia Care M. Powell Lawton was Director...of older people. Interventions in Dementia Care Toward Improving Quality...Cataloging-in-Publication Data...
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    Assessment of Dementia Patients and Their Families: An Ecological-Family-Centered Approach, in Health and Social Work » Read Now

    by Deborah J. Monahan. 9 pgs.

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    ...Assessment of dementia patients and their families: an ecological-family-centered...workers in the assessment and treatment of dementia patients and their families is...
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    Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work (Chap. 10 "Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders") » Read Now

    by Sonia G. Austrian. 354 pgs.

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    This essential resource, written for social workers by a social worker, discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common disorders. Austrian goes beyond a linear classification approach, instead emphasizing a broad bio-psychosocial ecosystems perspective, which...
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    The Neuropsychology of Degenerative Brain Diseases (Chap. 8 "Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Subcortical Dementia, and Other Degenerative Diseases") » Read Now

    by Robert G. Knight. 351 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Subcortical Dementia, and Other Degenerative Diseases...Palsy 232 Subcortical Dementia 233 Neuropsycholgy of...Validity of Subcortical...
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    Human Development and the Life Course: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Chap. 3 "Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type: Clinical Genetic, Pathogenetic, and Treatment Aspects" and Chap. 5 "Epidemiological and Public Health Aspects of Senile Dementia") » Read Now

    by Aage B. Sorensen, Franz E. Weinert, Lonnie R. Sherrod. 604 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...Finch 17 3. Senile Dementia of the Alzheimers Type: Clinical, Genetic...Classification and Epidemiological Aspects of Dementia Disorders 31 Course...Epidemiological and...
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    An Assessment Guide to Geriatric Neuropsychology (Chap. 10 "Age-Associated Conditions Affecting Cognition") » Read Now

    by Holly Tuokko, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos. 300 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...primary concern. Identification of dementia is perhaps the most common referral issue in this age group. Dementia may be defined as an overall decline...patterns of...
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    Life-Span Research on the Prediction of Psychopathology (Chap. 19 "Toward the Prediction of Dementias Arising in the Senium") » Read Now

    by L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling, Nancy E. Miller. 310 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...Chapter 19 TOWARD THE PREDICTION OF DEMENTIAS ARISING IN THE SENIUM 261 Asenath...respectively. Huntingtons Disease and Senile Dementia of the Alzheimers type, for...
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    Discourse Analysis and Applications: Studies in Adult Clinical Populations (Chap. 9 "Studies of Discourse Production in Adults with Alzheimer's Disease" and Chap. 10 "Conversational Topic-Shifting Analysis in Dementia") » Read Now

    by Ronald L. Bloom, Loraine K. Obler, Susan De Santi, Jonathan S. Ehrlich. 264 pgs.

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    ...Conversational Topic-Shifting Analysis in Dementia Linda J. Garcia and Yves Joanette...discourse breaks down in Alzheimers dementia. Ehrlich chapter 9 reviews recent...
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    When Memory Fails: Helping the Alzheimer's and Dementia Patient » Read Now

    by Allen Jack Edwards. 277 pgs.

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    ...Fails Helping the Alzheimers and Dementia Patient When Memory Fails Helping the Alzheimers and Dementia Patient Allen Jack Edwards, Ph. D...memory fails: helping the...
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    A Psychology of Orientation: Time Awareness across Life Stages and in Dementia » Read Now

    by Allen Jack Edwards. 279 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Psychological research using time as a variable has been extensive since the era of Wundt and Ebbinghaus. The care of and research on dementia patients highlights a unique need for understanding and applying the concepts of time and space. This volume, unique in its development of a model for...
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    Dementia » Read Now

    by Mario Maj, Norman Sartorius. 398 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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    Husbands Caring for Wives with Dementia: A Longitudinal Study of Continuity and Change, in Health and Social Work » Read Now

    by Betty J. Kramer. 12 pgs.

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    ...HUSBANDS CARING FOR WIVES WITH DEMENTIA: A Longitudinal Study of Continuity and...growing magnitude of diseases that cause dementia and affect more than 7 million...
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    Discharge Planning for Dementia Patients: Factors Influencing Caregiver Decisions and Satisfaction, in Health and Social Work » Read Now

    by Carole B. Cox. 8 pgs.

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    ...Discharge planning for dementia patients: factors influencing caregiver...Attending to the discharge needs of dementia patients is a primary concern of acute...NURSING HOME...
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    Perceptions of Dementia, Caregiving and Help Seeking among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, in Health and Social Work » Read Now

    by Kathryn L. Braun, Colette V. Browne. 13 pgs.

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    ...Perceptions of dementia, caregiving and help seeking among Asian...Vietnamese, and Native Hawaiian - on dementia, caregiving, and help seeking. Implications...Takamura...
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    Alzheimer's Disease: A Handbook for Caregivers » Read Now

    by Ronald C. Handy, James M. Turnbull, Joellen Edwards, Mary M. Lancaster. 428 pgs.

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    Alzheimer's Disease, A Handbook for Caregivers provides a useful bridge between an interdisciplinary panel of expert contributors who have academic knowledge about the condition and those who know most about the patient and their care needs.
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    A Neuropsychological Comparison of Demented and Nondemented Patients with Parkinson's Disease, in Applied Neuropsychology » Read Now

    by Konstantine K. Zakzanis, Morris Freedman. 18 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...that patients with PD without overt dementia are well recognized to manifest a reduced...Soukup Adams, 1996). Similarly, a dementia syndrome of PD has also been...

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