- Title
- Dementia: making a diagnosis and managing behavioural and psychological symptoms
- Creator
- Flynn, Brendan
- Relation
- Geriatric Medicine: A Problem-Based Approach p. 83-98
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3253-0
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Making a diagnosis of dementia can provide a degree of certainty about the future and allow for important personal, social and legal arrangements to be addressed. The diagnosis of dementia rests on the clinical history, corroborative information, cognitive examination and evidence of functional decline. The diagnosis is a clinical one—confirmation is only available by microscopic examination of neural tissue. Person-centred care is an important principle in dementia care. Non-pharmacological interventions should be tried first when treating behavioural or psychological symptoms of dementia.
- Subject
- dementia; person-centred care; non-pharmacological intervention; behavioural symptoms
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1386531
- Identifier
- uon:32433
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789811032530
- Language
- eng
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