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Product Description
Learn about dementia, how it progresses, and what treatments are available.
Easy reading and checklists that will help guide medical discussions are included.Learn about dementia, how it progresses, and what treatments are available. Learn how to:
- Distinguish dementia from normal aging and identify the types of dementia.
- Recognize the characteristics, warning signs, and risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Choose the doctors who can best provide treatment and advice.
- Anticipate how Alzheimer’s disease is likely to progress and the effects of each stage.
- Evaluate treatment options for cognitive and physical decline with Alzheimer’s disease.
- Help your loved one decide whether a clinical trial is something they should consider.
A diagnosis of dementia can be scary and overwhelming. This book, updated in 2019, describes what is known right now about Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia, including its pathological features, stages and the symptoms and prognosis at each stage, and the treatment options available. This book can help you recognize warning signs of the dementia and decipher the difference between the disease and normal aging. This book helps you find a doctor who will meet the needs of your loved one with dementia, and it describes the tests used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. This book also compares different types of dementia and discusses methods to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. It goes into special considerations for individuals with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Finally, this book examines the usefulness of clinical trials in finding new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Chosen by Book Authority as one of the best books on dementia of all time.
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Details were last updated on Sep 22, 2024 01:25 +08.
A diagnosis of dementia can be scary and overwhelming. This book, updated in 2019, describes what is known right now about Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia, including its pathological features, stages and the symptoms and prognosis at each stage, and the treatment options available. This book can help you recognize warning signs of the dementia and decipher the difference between the disease and normal aging. This book helps you find a doctor who will meet the needs of your loved one with dementia, and it describes the tests used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. This book also compares different types of dementia and discusses methods to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. It goes into special considerations for individuals with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Finally, this book examines the usefulness of clinical trials in finding new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Chosen by Book Authority as one of the best books on dementia of all time.
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- The 36-Hour Day, sixth edition: The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
- Learning to Speak Alzheimer's: A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease
- Alzheimer's Through the Stages: A Caregiver's Guide
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Details were last updated on Sep 22, 2024 01:25 +08.
