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Dementia, or major neurocognitive disorder as it is termed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5®) (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), is a leading cause of cog-nitive and functional decline among older adults worldwide and will continue to ascend in global health importance as populations con-tinue to age and...
13 maj 2015 · Subsequent articles will discuss how dementia affects the brain, the clinical features of dementia, its assessment and diagnosis, and the medical management and treatment of dementia.
This handbook is about how dementia is diagnosed. It explains the benefits of getting tested and finding out the cause for someone with symptoms. It outlines the different types of assessment a person will have in order to find out whether they have dementia. It also describes how a diagnosis might be given and what happens next.
It is intended for use as part of a clinical pathway when appropriate consent has been obtained from the patient. This toolkit was designed and developed by the Wessex Mental Health Clinical Network and the Wessex CLAHRC to support the dementia diagnosis pathway.
Dementia is a syndrome characterised by progressive cognitive impairment and is associated with impairment in functional abilities and in many cases, behavioural and psychological symptoms1. There may be memory loss usually related to short term memory, communication difficulties, changes in personality or mood and problems with spatial awareness.
Research has shown that physicians often fail to correctly apply a diagnosis of dementia, making a positive diagnosis when the disease is not present or failing to recognize it when it is.[14-18] Investigators attribute these errors to a lack of attention to cognitive functioning in routine medical examinations and to misperceptions about the no...
Dementia is a syndrome (essentially brain failure) affecting higher functions of the brain. There are a number of different causes. There is no single ‘dementia test’. Cognitive decline, specifically memory loss alone, is not sufficient to diagnose dementia.
