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Dementia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Dementia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: Perspectives on Individual Differences
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Dementia is a state that has implications for several groups. There
are, first, those who wish to assess its nature and impact in an
objective and scientific fashion, using tools of research to
uncover dementia's causes, effects, and parameters. The result has
been a rapidly expanding literature in diverse disciplines:
physiology, chemistry, neurology, psychology, and sociology, among
others. Second, there are those professionals and caregivers who
work di rectly with patients and other caregivers and who must
assess and apply interventions. Third, physicians are involved in
diagnosis and treatment (so far as possible) and are responsible
for communicating the ominous meanings of the destructive disease
process. Fourth, there are the caregivers, who accept
accountability for the future of a human who increasingly shows a
"robbing of the mind" in his or her behaviors. The needs and
stresses of those who care for and about those with progressive
dementia are among the most intense imaginable. They need support
of many kinds, frequently without knowing what to ask or of whom to
ask it. Finally, there are the patients, who increasingly become
dependent as their mental competencies decline. They need empathic
care-including answers to questions about cause, stabilization, or
reversal of the de menting process. Even more, they need cure.
Further, present and future generations need the assurance of
prevention. This volume surveys present "knowledge" about dementia
and its consequences.
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