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Intended as a practical guide for health professionals caring for Alzheimer's disease patients in institutional settings, this book emphasizes workable approaches to common problems in long-term care for demented patients. Chapters by internationally recognized experts cover clinical assessment of dementia in the nursing home, why autopsies are performed, pharmacologic issues, coping with care-giver stress, bioethical issues and a multidisciplinary approach to providing special services for institutionalized Alzheimer's patients and their families, including services to ethnic minority elders.

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It is rare to see such a diversity of topics addressed by well-known experts in a thorough, but succinct, fashion.--Creighton H. Phelps

The editors...can be commended for pulling together a text that will serve as a reference work for a wide audience from the most experienced clinicians to the newest of caregivers. -- James T. Howard, Chief, Alzheimer's Disease Program, Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA It is rare to see such a diversity of topics addressed by well-known experts in a thorough, but succinct, fashion. -- Creighton H. Phelps, Senior Vice President, Alzheimer's Association ...authoritatively and comprehensively addresses an important gap in the Alzheimer's disease care literature. -- Murray Raskind, M.D., University of Washington School of Medicine ...authoritatively and comprehensively addresses an important gap in the Alzheimer's disease care literature. -- Murray Raskind, M.D., University of Washington School of Medicine The editors...can be commended for pulling together a text that will serve as a reference work for a wide audience from the most experienced clinicians to the newest of caregivers. -- James T. Howard, Chief, Alzheimer's Disease Program, Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA It is rare to see such a diversity of topics addressed by well-known experts in a thorough, but succinct, fashion. -- Creighton H. Phelps, Senior Vice President, Alzheimer's Association

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