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Behavioral Disturbances of Dementia: Practical and Conceptual Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Peter V. Rabins
Peter V. Rabins
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
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Extract

Among the challenges clinicians and researchers face regarding behavioral disturbances of dementia are how to conceptualize them and how to measure them. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.) recognizes that dementia can be associated with mood symptoms and delusions by formally coding for them but does not have codes for coexisting hallucinations or other specific behavioral symptoms associated with dementia. One reason for this lack of coding classification is the difficulty in conceptualizing the many behavioral disorders, symptoms, and problems seen in patients with dementia.

Type
Behavioral Disturbances of Dementia in Our Current Nomenclature System
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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 8 , Issue S3 , May 1997 , pp. 281 - 283
Copyright
© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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