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Behavioral Disturbances of Dementia in Ambulatory Care Settings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Karen Ritchie
Karen Ritchie
Affiliation:
INSERM, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Behavioral disturbances are a primary reason elderly patients with dementia are admitted to long-term care facilities. Blackwood and colleagues found that 58% of 130 consecutive patients admitted to a nursing home because of a behavioral disorder had a principal diagnosis of dementia. Similarly, in a study of long-stay institutional care for persons with dementia in France, the author and colleagues found that 67% of 352 patients had been admitted because of a social or behavioral problem. Thus, outpatient management of behavioral disturbances would appear to play a central role in determining whether a patient with dementia can remain in the community.

Type
Clinical Perspectives: What Should We Be Studying?
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 8 , Issue S3 , May 1997 , pp. 439 - 442
Copyright
© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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