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Behavioral disturbances of dementia
— an overview of phenomenology and methodologic concerns | | Author(s) | Barry Reisberg, Stefanie R Auer, Isabel Monteiro |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 8, supplement 2, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 169-182 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; Behaviour disorders ; Symptoms ; Methodology ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Behaviour disturbances in dementia (BDD) are some of the most burdensome features with which the caregiver must cope. These symptoms are particularly important because they are likely to be responsive to both pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention strategies. Before the 1980s, rating scales for patients suffering from dementia did not separate cognitive features from non-cognitive behavioural symptoms - a major problem, since the evolution and course of behavioural symptoms differs from cognitive and cognition-related symptomatology. Before appropriate rating scales could be developed for assessment of behavioural disturbances in dementia, the specific nature of these disturbances had to be described in the medical literature - which happened for the first time in the late 1980s. The rating scales that have been developed from these studies are as reliable as cognitive assessment measures. Instruments are now available that are based on information provided by the caregiver, or based on observation of the patient by the clinician. Construct validity, reliability, and the differences in methodology of these scales are compared in this overview. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA- 80305233 A |
| Classmark | EA: DA:4C: EP: CT: 3D: 64A |
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