| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxi, 669 pages ; cm. |
| Series |
APA handbooks in psychology
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Foundations: Diagnosis, epidemiology, and neurobiology -- Contemporary research criteria for dementia -- Epidemiology of dementia and mild cognitive impairment -- The neuropathology of dementia -- Traumatic brain injury and repetitive brain trauma: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and dementia syndromes -- Brain imaging in dementia and antecedent conditions -- Part II. Assessment: Cultural issues, methodology, and neuropsychology -- Assessment of cognition in African American older adults -- Assessment of age-related cognitive changes in Chinese and Chinese-American older adults -- Neuropsychological assessment of Spanish-speaking older adults -- Widely disseminated tools for the assessment of populations at risk for dementia -- Aging and everyday functioning: Measurement, correlates, and future directions -- Financial and medical decision making capacity in mild cognitive impairment and dementia -- Quality of life in dementia: Conceptualization, measurement, and psychosocial treatment implications -- Clinical assessment of Alzheimer's disease -- Clinical neuropsychological assessment in older adults with Lewy body disease and Parkinson's disease -- Clinical neuropsychology of frontotemporal dementia -- Neuropsychological evaluation for vascular dementia -- Neuropsychology of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders -- Part III. Intervention: Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies -- Cognitive reserve: Theory, measurement, and evidence -- Social and behavioral factors associated with risk of developing dementia -- The effects of physical activity on cognition, dementia risk, and brain health -- Cognitive remediation approaches and dementia prevention: Findings from the active trial and related research -- Does cognitive training reduce risk for dementia? -- Evidence supporting common cognitive rehabilitation techniques in cognitively symptomatic older adults -- Memory compensation in mild cognitive impairment and dementia -- Multicomponent approaches to secondary prevention of dementia -- Disclosing a neurodegenerative diagnosis: The complexities of telling and hearing -- Treating comorbidities in dementia: Depression -- Sleep in mild cognitive impairment and dementia -- Assessment and pharmacological management of behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia -- Support groups and dementia -- Education for informal dementia caregivers -- Risk for elder abuse among persons with dementia -- Person-centered care as treatment for dementia -- Palliative and end-of-life care in the context of dementia -- Index. |
| Summary |
"This book addresses assessment, comorbidity, evaluation, and treatment of various forms of dementia. It reviews common dementias including Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and other less common dementias. The book is organized into sections discussing diagnosis, epidemiology, and neurobiology (including neuropathology and neuroimaging); assessment, including cultural issues, methodology, and neuropsychology; and primary, secondary, and tertiary intervention strategies. It is intended as a resource for all psychologists and other health professionals that serve persons and families impacted by neurodegenerative disease. The first section of the book provides a brief description on contemporary research criteria for dementia, epidemiology of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and the neuropathology of dementia. It also discusses traumatic brain injury and repetitive brain trauma, and brain imaging in dementia and antecedent conditions. The second section addresses neuropsychological assessment of cognition in African American, Chinese and Chinese-American, and Spanish-speaking older adults. It then discusses clinical neuropsychology of frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia, and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. The third section describes social and behavioral factors associated with risk of developing dementia; the effects of physical activity on cognition, dementia risk, and brain health; and cognitive remediation approaches and dementia prevention. It then discusses evidence supporting common cognitive rehabilitation techniques in cognitively symptomatic older adults, and memory compensation in MCI and dementia. It also describes treatment of comorbidities in dementia, sleep in MCI and Dementia, person-centered care as treatment for dementia, and palliative and end-of-life care in the context of dementia."--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Form |
Also issued in print. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. |
| Subject |
Dementia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Dementia. (DNLM)D003704
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Dementia -- therapy.
(DNLM)D003704Q000628
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Handbooks.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Glenn E., editor.
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American Psychological Association, issuing body.
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| Other Form: |
Original (DLC) 2017041925 |
| ISBN |
9781433828805 (electronic bk.) |
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1433828804 (electronic bk.) |
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