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The rapid increase of the elderly and dementia patients has motivated psychiatrists and government officials in Korea to participate in dementia research, programs and projects more actively since the nineties....
A number of studies have looked at depression and associated cognitive impairment. The term depressive pseudodementia has proved to be a popular clinical concept. Despite the improvement following treatment of...
Kim HS, Chung YC, Lee KJ, Kwon GH, Seo HS, Park YM
KMID: 2186156
J Korean Geriatr Psychiatry.
2007 Jun;11(1):29-34.
OBJECTIVES: Many studies showed that risperidone and olanzapine in the treatment of delirium were similar to haloperidol, in side effects were superior to that. Quetiapine is frequently used in delirious...
Dementia is one of the most common psychiatric problem in the elderly. According to the increase of the older people with dementia, management of dementia need to be systemized at...
Korea is the most rapidly aging society in the world. The proportion of elderly people which were over 7% in 2000 is predicted to exceed 14% in 2018. The rapid...
The author briefly describes background, aims and organizational scheme of the Seoul Dementia Management Project (SDMP) and introduces the Seoul Metropolitan Center for Dementia (SMCD), which is responsible for planning...
Lim HK, Choi EH, Lee YR, Oh K, Pae CU, Lee C, Paik IH, Lee CU
KMID: 2186158
J Korean Geriatr Psychiatry.
2007 Jun;11(1):40-43.
Several studies have reported that either risperidone or olanzapine is effective and tolerable in the elderly patients with psychotic symptoms. However, there is a lack of clinical data of risperidone...
This study compared the effectiveness and tolerability of amisulpride and risperidone in patients with psychosis associated with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). This 8-week open label study randomized 72...
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate mortality rates and risk factors in dementia patients in a rural cohort.
METHODS: A total of 114 subjects with clinically diagnosed dementia...