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Understanding Alzheimer disease — from diagnosis to rehabilitation
Author(s)	Joan C Rogers
Journal title	Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 20, no 3/4, 2002
Pages	pp 103-124
Source	Haworth Document Delivery Service, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA.
Keywords	Dementia ; Screening ; Rehabilitation ; Therapy.
Annotation	People with Alzheimer's disease (AD) can benefit from rehabilitation therapies aimed at maintaining their functional abilities. To foster understanding of this disease, this article describes the genetic basis of AD, illustrates its clinical course in patients with early and late adulthood onset, and discusses some of the personal, legal, pharmacological and ethical issues and implications surrounding genetic testing for AD. Rehabilitation principles for treating people include: participation of clients and their caregivers in the process; basing rehabilitation on disease stage; accentuating abilities versus disabilities; and targeting behaviour problems as well as physical and cognitive dysfunction. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-031007227 A
Classmark	EA: 3V: LM: LO
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