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Alzheimer’s Disease

Problems, Prospects, and Perspectives

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Harvey J. Altman

    1. Department of Behaviroral Animal Research, Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, USA
      Department of Psychiatry, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, USA

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Table of contents (41 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Diagnosis and Early Detection

    1. BEHAVE-AD: A Clinical Rating Scale for the Assessment of Pharmacologically Remediable Behavioral Symptomatology in Alzheimer’s Disease

      • Barry Reisberg, Jeffrey Borenstein, Emile Franssen, Stacy Salob, Gertrude Steinberg, Emma Shulman et al.
      Pages 1-16

    2. Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease by Dermatoglyphic Discriminants

      • Herman J. Weinreb
      Pages 17-28

    3. Dementia, Depression, and Pseudodementia

      • Barry Siegel, Samuel Gershon
      Pages 29-44

    4. The Epidemiology of the Concurrence of Depression and Dementia

      • Barry Gurland, John Toner
      Pages 45-57

    5. Cognitive Function and Brain-Adrenal Axis Activity in Aging, Depression and Dementia

      • Gregory F. Oxenkrug, Samuel Gershon
      Pages 59-66

  3. Etiology and Pathophysiology

    1. From Family Studies to Molecular Hypothesis in Alzheimer’s Dementia

      • Marcia L. Morris, Leonard L. Heston
      Pages 67-74

    2. Scrapie Prions, Amyloid Plaques, and a Possible Link with Alzheimer’s Disease

      • Michael P. McKinley, Stanley B. Prusiner
      Pages 75-86

    3. Alzheimer’s Disease, Down Syndrome, and Parkinson’s Disease: Selected Pathologic Features

      • Henry M. Wisniewski, Paul E. Bendheim, David C. Bolton
      Pages 87-97

    4. Neurotransmitters in the Ageing Brain and Dementia

      • D. M. Bowen, A. N. Davison
      Pages 99-112

    5. Sleep, EEG and Sleep Disorders in Alzheimer’s Disease

      • P. Prinz, M. Vitiello
      Pages 113-128

  5. Primary Care/Physicians

    1. Gatekeepers: Changing Roles and Responsibilities for Primary Care Physicians with Aging Family Systems

      • Richard L. Douglass
      Pages 191-195

    2. Adrda and the Physician

      • Mary Martinen
      Pages 197-199

    3. Home Health Care for Victims of Alzheimer’s Disease

      • Susan Hicks, Karen Linell, Mary Jane Curle
      Pages 201-207
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About this book

Alzheimer's disease is a primary neurodegenerative disease whose incidence and prevalence is rapidly approaching epidemic proportions. A major reason for this is that man is living longer than he has ever lived before and the likelihood of contracting the disease is significantly greater within the elderly portion of the population. The problem becomes even more acute in the light of recent estimates which predict that the number of people living beyond the age of 65 is expected to continue to increase. The impact of these statistics on the family and the health care industry in terms of time, effort and cost are staggering. A recent report issued by the Michigan Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Conditions (1987) effectively underscores this last point. "Each person with a dementing disease requires an average of seven years of care, either at home or in a residential care facility. Care provided at home is estimated to cost about $12,000 annually, for a total of $84,000 per person. This is a conservative figure, however, because many persons with dementia spend their last few years in a nursing home at an average 'cost of $22,000 per year, and some spend from 10 to 15 years in a nursing home, for a total cost of $220,000 to $330,000.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Behaviroral Animal Research, Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, USA

    Harvey J. Altman

  • Department of Psychiatry, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, USA

    Harvey J. Altman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Book Subtitle: Problems, Prospects, and Perspectives

  • Editors: Harvey J. Altman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6414-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-6416-4Published: 01 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-6414-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 397

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Infectious Diseases

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