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The symptom group of dementia is now called as behavioral and psychological symptom of dementia (BPSD). Depression is a highly prevalent concomitant of dementia. At the same time, differential diagnosis...
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of geriatric depression in activities of daily living for self maintenance (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)...
OBJECTIVE: This clinical study investigates the current status of geropsychiatric consultation in Korea, as the geriatric population and the needs for geropsychiatric consultation increase.
METHOD: Hospital records of all geriatiric patients...
Behavior disturbances in dementia have many causes, and it is difficult to judge the effectiveness of any method as well as to classify and choose the right agents or methods...
Cognitive function and its related issues were studied for 10 years in 766 elderly people aged 65 or more as of December, 1990 in Jookjang Myun, Pohang, Kyungpook Province. The...
The alcohol problems in geriatric population have been strikingly increasing. The age differences of alcohol effect on the brain have been reported by several animal studies. Furthermore, cognitive disorders including...
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are common degenerative disorders in the elderly. Most dementia patients are cared for at home by family members. Although caregiving is associated with significant psychological...
Dementia is a multi-dimensional disorder associated with cognitive symptoms, functional impairment, and behavioral and psychological symptoms such as agitation, depression and psychosis. Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most typical progressive and irreversible dementia characterized by loss of intellectual capacity in many domains, altered behavior, inability to care for oneself, and ultimately neurologic...
OBJECTIVES: The course of Alzheimer's disease is often complicated by psychiatric symptoms including depression, delusion and hallucination. And these psychiatric symptoms may be due to neuropathological changes of the disease...
Dementias can be calssified into cortical, subcortical, cortical-subcortical and multifocal ones based on the major pathological distribution within the brain. The literatures of recent knowledge about clinical features of other...
Recently attention to the behavior and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) is increasing repidly. Agitation is one of the BPSDs that contributes to the heavy burden on the caregiver and...