Severe Dementia

Introduction.

PART 1: INTRODUCTORY.

Chapter 1: Assessment and Diagnosis of Severe Dementia (Paul Newhouse and Joseph Lasek).

Chapter 2: Neurochemistry of Severe Dementia (Sally I. Sharp, Paul T. Francis and Clive G. Ballard).

Chapter 3: The Molecular Pathology of Severe Dementia (Clive Holmes).

PART 2: CLINICAL FEATURES OF SEVERE DEMENTIA.

Chapter 4: Cognitive Functions in Severe Dementia (Judith Saxton and François Boller).

Chapter 5: Behavioural and Psychological Symptons of Dementia – Agitation (E. Jane Byrne and Deborah Collins).

Chapter 6: Depression in Severe Dementia (Kate Bielinski and Brian Lawlor).

Chapter 7: Physical Aspects of Severe Alzheimer’s Disease (Bruno Vellas).

Chapter 8: Clinical Features of Severe Dementia: Staging (Barry Reisberg, Jerzy Wegiel, Emile Franssen, Sridhar Kadiyala, Stefanie Auer, Liduïn Souren, Marwan Sabbagh and James Golomb).

Chapter 9: Clinical Features of Severe Dementia: Function (Serge Gauthier).

PART 3: MANAGEMENT.

Chapter 10: Drug Treatment: Memantine (Anton P. Porsteinsson and Pierre N. Tariot).

Chapter 11: Drug Treatment: Cholinesterase Inhibitors (Michael Woodward and Howard Feldman).

Chapter 12: Drug Treatment: Treatment of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia with Neuroleptics (Peter Paul De Deyn).

Chapter 13: Non-pharmacological Treatment of Severe Dementia: An Overview (Ross Overshott and Alistair Burns).

Chapter 14: Non-pharmacological Treatment of Severe Dementia: the Seattle Protocols (Rebecca G. Logsdon, Linda Teri and Sue M. McCurry).

Chapter 15: Care by Families for Late Stage Dementia (Steven H. Zarit and Joseph E. Gaugler).

Chapter 16: Person-centred Care for People with Severe Dementia (Murna Downs, Neil Small and Katherine Froggatt).

Chapter 17: Palliative Care in Patients with Severe Dementia (Raymond Koopmans, H. Roeline W. Pasman and Jenny T. van der Steen).

Chapter 18: Narrative Ethics and Ethical Narratives in Dementia (Clive Baldwin).

Chapter 19: Health Economics of Severe Dementia (Anders Wimo and Bengt Winblad).

Index.