Titlebook: Alzheimer’s Disease; Problems, Prospects, Harvey J. Altman (Direcotor, Assistant Professor) Book 1987 Springer Science+Business Media New Y

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Home Health Care for Victims of Alzheimer’s Diseaseother medical problems — leaving him ineligible for home health care. The decision to institutionalize him came very hard for me as a home health professional. But it was the only option available amid resources and services that I knew were beyond his qualification, and unsuitable for his condition.”

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BEHAVE-AD: A Clinical Rating Scale for the Assessment of Pharmacologically Remediable Behavioral Sym, we initially described three broad clinical phases of the progression of the disease (Reisberg, 1981; Schneck et al., 1982). Subsequently, we published detailed descriptions of seven, clinically identifiable global stages in the progression from normal aging to most severe Alzheimer’s disease (Rei

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Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease by Dermatoglyphic Discriminantsan Down’s syndrome (DS). An excess frequency of DS among the first-degree relatives probands with autopsy-proven AD was first uncovered by the extensive pedigree studies of Heston and his colleagues (1976; 1981; 1982), and had recently been independently confirmed by Heyman (1983). Virtually all ind

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Dementia, Depression, and Pseudodementia; Bulbena and Berrios, 1985). This should not be surprising since dementia and depression are the most prevalent mental disorders of the elderly whose proportion of the population in every developing country is growing rapidly (Butler and Lewis, 1982; OTA, 1985).

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The Epidemiology of the Concurrence of Depression and Dementiaod. Therefore, when symptoms of these two conditions occur together, it raises questions about the clinical implications of the hybrid syndrome, and the circumstances that could lead to concurrence of the two conditions. This paper applies the epidemiological perspective to review findings of releva

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Cognitive Function and Brain-Adrenal Axis Activity in Aging, Depression and Dementia it has become an object of increased attention to psychiatrists and has resulted in the avalanch of publications reviewed elsewhere (Stokes, 1987). This chapter reviews the findings of our research team as well as closely related literature in an attempt to offer a satisfactory explanation of the k