Dementia

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Dementia

Types

Alzheimer’s disease Binswanger's disease Dementia of the Frontal Lobe Type Dementia with Lewy bodies Frontotemporal dementia Multi infarct dementia Pick's disease Presenile dementia Semantic dementia

Assessment

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Treatment

Memory clinic

Dementia is the loss of mental capacity to a level where normal social and occupational roles can no longer be maintained due to cognitive decline. Widespread loss of memory, reasoning and judgement and their accompanying effects upon personality and social skills are characteristic signs.

Dementia is sometimes devided into Presenile and senile dementia

The condition may be brought about by a number of organic brain syndromes which include:

• AIDS dementia complex
• Alzheimer's disease
• Creutzfeldt Jacob syndrome
• Dementia with Lewy bodies
• Parkinson's disease
• Pick's disease

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See also

• Cognitive Stimulation Therapy
• Korsakoff's syndrome
• Pseudodementia
• Sundowning (dementia)
• Vascular dementia
• Wandering in dementia

Key texts

Books

• Brooker, D. (2007). Person centred dementia care:Making services better. London:Jessica Kingsley.
• National Centre for Mental Health (2007). A NICE-SCIE Guideline on supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care. London:The British Psychological SOciety & Gaskell.

Papers

• Department of Health (2008). Transforming the quality of dementia care:Consultation on a national dementia strategy.

Additional material

Papers

• Google Scholar

External links

Audit of dementia care by UK Royal College of Psychiatrists