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Behavioral Symptoms in Dementia: Community-Based Research
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2005
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Behavioral symptoms of dementia are stressful not only for patients but also for their caregivers. These symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, activity disturbances, aggressiveness, sleep disturbances, affective disturbances, and anxieties and phobias. Despite the burden of coping with behavioral problems, little information is available about effective treatments for behavioral symptoms in Alzheimer's disease and related dementing disorders.
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- Criterion Validity: Do the Symptoms Respond to Treatment—Pharmacologic or Nonpharmacologic?
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- © 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association
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