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Delusions and hallucinations in Alzheimer's Disease: results from a two-year longitudinal study
- Authors:
- HAUPT M., ROMERO B., KURZ A.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(11), November 1996, pp.965-972.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Delusional symptoms and hallucinations are quite common features in the clinical syndrome of dementia. Reports on a research project to investigate how frequent psychotic symptoms are in Alzheimer's Disease. Also looks at whether the frequency is related to severity cognitive and functional impairment; whether the frequency is related to subsequent cognitive and functional decline; and family which symptoms are most strongly associated with the degree and decline of cognitive and functional impairment. Results found that psychotic symptoms are quite frequent concomitants in Alzheimer's Disease. Their presence early in the disease course may help to identify patients who experience a rampant symptom progression, have a greater risk for institutionalisation and should be consequently treated psychopharmacologically and by counselling of the family's management of these non-cognitive disturbances.
Amos: a self lost and found
- Author:
- TIBBS Margaret Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 4(2), March 1996, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The lack of culturally sensitive services for people from ethnic minorities can literally be deadly. Describes the life of Amos Jackson and the lessons it taught the author.
The natural history of mental disorder on old age. Martin Roth, Journal of Medical Science (1955) 101, 281-301
- Author:
- BURNS Alistair
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(1), January 1996, pp.7-14.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article is part of a series in which key papers in old age psychiatry are presented with an introduction, commentary by the original author and current update by someone working in the field. The paper was the first attempt to differentiate the features of clinical psychiatric illness in later life and has been comprehensively summarized. The salient findings of the paper are presented and discussed.
Sharing the diagnosis - how do carers feel?
- Author:
- HUSBAND Hilary
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 4(1), January 1996, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Most professionals agree that carers should be fully informed of the diagnosis of dementia and its implications, but there is much less agreement on whether sufferers themselves should be told. Reports on a survey to investigate carers views and experience.
Depression and dementia: coexistence and differentiation
- Author:
- WARRINGTON Jill
- Publisher:
- University of Stirling. Dementia Services Development Centre
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 37p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
This report reviews the complex relationship between these two conditions and gives guidance on the recognition and management of depression in older people. Contents include: defining depression and dementia; how common are depression and dementia in the elderly?; what causes depression; how do depression and dementia relate to each other?; depressive dementia (pseudodementia); depression as a secondary condition to dementia.
Anxiety disorders in dementia sufferers
- Authors:
- BALLARD Clive, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(11), November 1996, pp.987-990.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
One hundred and fifty-eight consecutive patients attending a university memory clinic were assessed using variety of standardized instruments. Dementia was diagnosed according to DSM-III-R criteria. One hundred and nine patients had DSM-II-R dementia. None of the cognitive or demographic variables were significantly associated with the presence of anxiety symptoms. Three main categories of anxiety symptoms were evident - anxiety related to depression, anxiety related to psychosis and anxiety to interpersonal situations.
Dementia in the elderly male alcoholic: a retrospective clinicopathological study
- Authors:
- FISMAN Michael, RAMSAY D., WEISER M.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(3), March 1996, pp.209-218.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Although intellectual decline associated with alcohol use has been extensively documented, the neuropathological basis for this cognitive change remains controversial. This article looks at a naturalistic survey of a population of patients identified as having an excessive alcohol intake.
Old age mental disorders in Newcastle upon Tyne: Part 1 a study of prevalence
- Authors:
- BURNS Alistair, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(3), March 1996, pp.193-199.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper forms part of a series in which key papers in old age psychiatry are presented with an Introduction, commentary by the original author and current update by someone working in the field. This study was part of the academic onslaught on old age psychiatry from the Newcastle Group, starting in the 1950s and continuing today. The accompanying commentaries review the paper in detail and a summary and conclusions are included.
Impaired judgment: a useful symptom of dementia?
- Authors:
- HEAD L., BERRIOS G.E.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(9), September 1996, pp.779-785.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
'Impaired judgment' remains a diagnostic (and predictive) criterion for delirium, dementia and substance-related disorders, and yet its diagnosis and measurement are hampered by the absence of an operational definition. Most of the important research into judgment as a psychological function has been carried out in development and industrial psychology, in the experimental analysis of perception, medical diagnosis and legal decision-making. Models generated in these fields, although important, are only tangentially relevant to 'impaired judgment' as it is met with in clinical practice. This article explores some models of judgment and their application to dementia. It concludes that judgment is not a unitary function but a composite of subroutines. Hence, both low-and high-level analyses are required: the former to explore aetiology, differential diagnosis and treatment, the latter for the assessment of psychosocial competence. A model for the understanding of judgment is also suggested.
Equal opportunity
- Author:
- DOBSON Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.8.96, 1996, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how five members of a community mental health team pooled skills and set up a project offering free training for staff working with elderly people with dementia.