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Management of Patients with Dementia

The Role of the Physician

  • Addresses overlooked or under recognized issue in patients with dementia, the management of which necessitates special insight

  • Provides guidance and knowledge for daily clinical practice in the medical management of patients with dementia

  • Incorporates cases into chapters to illustrate the principles and management approaches

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Management of Patients with Dementia: An Introduction

    • Kristian Steen Frederiksen, Gunhild Waldemar
    Pages 1-18
  3. Diagnostic Evaluation of Dementia

    • Amber Nous, Maxime Vande Vyver, Wietse Wiels, Sebastiaan Engelborghs
    Pages 31-55
  4. Disclosure of Diagnosis in MCI and Dementia

    • Kristian Steen Frederiksen, Gunhild Waldemar
    Pages 57-72
  5. Anti-dementia Medication

    • Vesna Jelic, Bengt Winblad
    Pages 73-104
  6. Review of Medication in Patients with Dementia

    • Dorota Religa, Katarzyna Wieczorowska-Tobis, Björn Johansson
    Pages 105-128
  7. Management Approaches for Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

    • Maarten J. A. Van Den Bossche, Mathieu Vandenbulcke
    Pages 129-153
  8. Management of Vascular Risk Factors in Dementia

    • Ana Verdelho, Manuel Gonçalves Pereira
    Pages 155-178
  9. Management of Motor Symptoms in Dementia Disorders

    • Zeynep Tufekcioglu, Basar Bilgic, Hasmet Hanagasi, Murat Emre
    Pages 201-227
  10. Management of Sleep Disorders in Patients with Dementia

    • Geert Mayer, Helmut Frohnhofen
    Pages 229-250
  11. Seizures and Epilepsy in Dementia: Diagnosis and Management

    • Laura Mantoan Ritter, Christer Nilsson
    Pages 251-290
  12. Physical and Cognitive Exercise for Patients with Dementia

    • Kristian Steen Frederiksen
    Pages 291-314
  13. Promoting Functional Independence in Dementia

    • Andrew Sommerlad, Penny Rapaport
    Pages 315-339
  14. Patients with Dementia in Hospital

    • Tomas J. Welsh, Roy W. Jones
    Pages 341-364
  15. Long-Term Care for Patients with Dementia

    • Kathryn Mullan, Anthony Peter Passmore, Bernadette McGuinness, Joseph P. M. Kane
    Pages 365-404
  16. End-of-Life Care in Patients with Advanced Dementia

    • Marie-José H. E. Gijsberts, Wilco Achterberg
    Pages 405-416
  17. Systematic Medical Follow-Up of Patients with Dementia

    • Kristian Steen Frederiksen, Gunhild Waldemar
    Pages 417-425
  18. Back Matter

    Pages 427-434

About this book

This book provides an overall introduction to the medical management of dementia with chapters dedicated to specific topics such as pain, epilepsy, vascular risk factors in dementia and review of medication, which are often not addressed in books on the subject, and thereby filling a gap in the field. 

Chapters are supplemented with cases to highlight key concepts and treatment approaches, and to provide the reader with the possibility to reflect on management options and the readers´ own current practice.

This book is aimed at clinicians of different specialties (mainly neurology, psychiatry, geriatric medicine and general practice/family medicine) who manage patients with dementia on a regular basis, and thus provides useful guidance to be used in the clinic.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Danish Dementia Research Centre, Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Kristian Steen Frederiksen, Gunhild Waldemar

About the editors

Dr. Kristian Steen Frederiksen is a neurologist at the Danish Dementia Research Centre and the Memory Clinic at Rigshospitalet, Denmark. He has a PhD in neuroscience and neuroimaging, and main research interests includes clinical application of biomarkers, neuroimaging, and exercise as a possible treatment of dementia and cognitive impairment. Dr Frederiksen has published more than 40 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and a book chapter and serves on the European Academy of Neurology scientific subpanel on dementia and cognitive disorders. 

Professor Gunhild Waldemar is the Director of the Danish Dementia Research Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor Waldemar has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters on various aspects of dementia research and clinical aspects. Moreover, Professor Waldemar serves on numerous boards and other international positions within dementia and medicine in general and has received several Danish and international awards for her work.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Management of Patients with Dementia

  • Book Subtitle: The Role of the Physician

  • Editors: Kristian Steen Frederiksen, Gunhild Waldemar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77904-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77903-0Published: 27 July 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77906-1Published: 28 July 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77904-7Published: 26 July 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 434

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurology, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Psychiatry

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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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