Title | Alzheimer's Disease [electronic resource] : Problems, Prospects, and Perspectives / edited by Harvey J. Altman |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1987 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6414-0 |
Descript | XIII, 397 p. 8 illus. online resource |
Diagnosis and Early Detection -- BEHAVE-AD: A Clinical Rating Scale for the Assessment of Pharmocologically Remediable Behavioral Symptomatology in Alzheimer's Disease -- Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease by Dermatoglyphic Discriminants -- Dementia, Depression, and Pseudodementia -- The Epidemiology of the Concurrence of Depression and Dementia -- Cognitive Function and Brain-Adrenal Axis Activity in Aging, Depression and Dementia -- Etiology and Pathophysiology -- From Family Studies to Molecular Hypothesis in Alzheimer's Dementia -- Scrapie Prions, Amyloid Placques, and a Possible Link With Alzheimer's Disease -- Alzheimer's Disease, Down Syndrome, and Parkinson's Disease: Selected Pathologic Features -- Neurotransmitters in the Ageing Brain and Dementia -- Sleep, EEG and Sleep Disorders in Alzheimer's Disease -- Treatment Strategies -- On Possible Relationships Between Alzheimer's Disease, Age-Related Memory Loss and the Development of Animal Models -- Serotonin, Alzheimer's Disease and Learning and Memory in Animals -- Intracranial Cholinergic Drug Infusion in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease -- Neural Implants: A Strategy for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease -- Treatment of the Depressed Elderly Patient -- Status of Alzheimer Disease Research -- Primary Care/Physicians -- Gatekeepers: Changing Roles and Responsibilities for Primary Care Physicians with Aging Family Systems -- ADRDA and the Physician -- Home Health Care for Victims of Alzheimer's Disease -- Nursing -- Understanding Progressive Dementia: Making a Case for the Case History -- Exercise Treatment for Wandering Behavior -- The Relationship Between Confusion and Abuse -- A Systematic Approach to the Nursing Care of Acutely Ill Geriatric Patients with Cognitive Impairment -- Urine Control in Patients with Chronic Degenerative Brain Disease -- Cognitive Psychopathology and the Phenomenon of Wandering: Research and Clinical Nursing Approaches -- Sleep and Dementia: Nursing Care Considerations -- Nursing Care of the Human with Cognitive Loss -- Patient Behavior, Care Needs, Personalized Community Resources of Both Institutionalized and Non-Institutionalized Alzheimer's Patients -- The Family -- Creating Ties and Maintaining Support: Networking and Self Help -- The Family Caregiving Role: Stresses and Effective Coping -- Patterns of Functioning and Coping in Black Families: Caring for Physically Disabled Elders -- Designing Services for the Minority Aged -- Environmental Design and Mentally Impaired Older People -- Overcoming Problems in Modifying the Environment -- Public Policy/Legal and Ethical Issues -- When to Discontinue Home Care: The Caregiving Family's Dilemma -- Developing Institutional Policies to Obviate Agonizing Over Complex Ethical Dilemmas -- Alzheimer's Disease: Legal Issues -- Clarifying Who Decides -- Legislative Advocacy and Alzheimer's Disease: The California Experience -- A Public Policy Design Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease -- Public Policy and Long Term Care: Domestic and International Perspectives -- Contributors