Susan Kurrle, Henry Brodaty, Roseanne Hogarth

Physical Comorbidities of Dementia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dementia is reaching epidemic proportions. To date treatment has focused on cognitive and behavioural symptoms and their management, but the physical side has been neglected. Physical comorbidity is extremely common in people with dementia and leads to excess disability and reduced quality of life for the affected person and their family. Physical comorbidity is often treatable if not reversible. Epilepsy, delirium, falls, oral disease, malnutrition, frailty, incontinence, sleep disorders and visual dysfunction are found to occur more frequently in dementia sufferers. Physical Comorbidities of Dementia describes how these may present and gives detailed information and evidence-based recommendations on how to recognise and manage these conditions. Written by clinicians, each chapter deals with a separate condition accompanied by a list of recommendations for management. Physical Comorbidities of Dementia provides practical explanations and solutions to help all healthcare professionals to improve care for people with dementia. Written for all health professionals working with people with dementia, Physical Comorbidities of Dementia describes the common physical conditions occurring in people with dementia. Many of these conditions are treatable and this book provides evidence-based recommendations on how to recognise and manage these conditions and improve quality of life.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Medicine
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9781107648265
• ISBN-10: 1107648262
• Artikelnr.: 35407542

Autorenporträt

Susan Kurrle is Curran Chair in Health Care of Older People at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, and Geriatrician and Clinical Director, Division of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Health Service, Hornsby, NSW, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Falls; 3. Delirium; 4. Epilepsy; 5. Weight loss and nutritional disorders; 6. Incontinence; 7. Sleep disorders; 8. Visual dysfunction; 9. Oral disease; 10. Frailty; Index.

Rezensionen

'Any health professional working with PWD ought to have access to a copy of this useful little tome, and I think I will be a better doctor to my patients for having read it.' International Psychogeriatrics