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Patients with dementia and their caregivers 3 years after diagnosis — a longitudinal study
Author(s)	Glenys O Williams, Craig L Gjerde, Stanely Haugland, Daniel Darnold
Journal title	Archives of Family Medicine, vol 4, June 1995
Pages	pp 512-517
Keywords	Dementia ; Patients ; Family care ; General practitioners ; Geriatric out-patients clinics ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	This American study was based in a hospital dementia assessment clinic with a family physician director, and continuing care by community physicians. Caregivers' perceptions of the most frequent and troublesome behaviours of patients with dementia were documented at different stages of the disease. The importance caregivers attached to their requests for information reflected changing but continuing needs for reassurance about the patient's diagnosis and treatment, and for help with the psychosocial consequences of dementia. Physicians must be aware of caregivers' needs at different stages of the disease process and be equipped to help them appropriately.
Accession Number	CPA-960923030 A
Classmark	EA: LF: P6:SJ: QT6: L6G: TOB: 3J: 7T *
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