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| Special issue on young onset dementia | | Author(s) | Raymond Koopmans, Tor Rosness |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 26, no 12, December 2014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, December 2014 |
| Pages | pp 1931-2021 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Middle aged ; Young elderly ; 50-59 age group ; 60-64 age group. |
| Annotation | This special issue features a guest editorial followed by nine articles looking at Young Onset Dementia (YOD), which is generally defined as dementia starting before the age of 65. Topics covered are as follows: the experiences of adult children of persons with young-onset dementia; cognitive decline in patients with young onset Alzheimer's disease; the prevalence of YOD in Australia; family history of frontotemporal lobar degeneration in Asia; the characteristics of YOD patients in institutional care; psychotropic drug use in people with YOD; the relationship between unmet care needs in YOD patients and the course of neuropsychiatric symptoms; the experiences of children living with a parent with YOD; and the use of assistive technology in the lives of people with YOD. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150710211 A |
| Classmark | EA: SE: BBA: BBB: BBC |
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