Severe dementia. Edited by A. Burns and B. Winblad. John Wiley and Sons: Chichester, 2006. Pages: 260. ISBN: 13 978‐0‐470‐01054‐9

Kwentoh, Mona-Lisa

doi:10.1002/hup.905

Human Psychopharmacology

2008

DOI: 10.1002/hup.905

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Severe dementia. Edited by A. Burns and B. Winblad. John Wiley and Sons: Chichester, 2006. Pages: 260. ISBN: 13 978‐0‐470‐01054‐9

Mona-Lisa Kwentoh¹

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“…This implies that their carers have to take over practical tasks such as bathing and toileting which give rise to a more physical burden of care (6). Caring for individuals with dementia at home is often described as "enduring stress and frustration" (7). Furthermore, behaviors such as aggression, agitation, and nighttime wandering are more strongly associated with cognitive and depressive symptoms in caregivers (8,9).…”

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A mind that could be so alive one moment with thought and feeling building toward the next step and then someone erases the blackboard. It's all gone and I can't even reconstruct what the topic was. It's just gone. And I sit with the dark, the blank." As the eminent American psychologist, Sandra Bem mused so eloquently in her writings, immediately after receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer's (1). This anecdote very poignantly summarizes the harrowing effect dementia has on the individual person. There have been massive improvements in the health sector over the previous decades, and as a consequence people have been able to live longer and healthier lives. However, concurrently, there has also been an increase in the cases of non-communicable diseases, which includes dementia. In 2015 itself, dementia affected 47 million people worldwide; corresponding to roughly 5% of the world's elderly population (2, 3). Extensive research has been done for early and moderate stage dementia, but severe dementia is relatively neglected with very few evidence-based treatment options available. The later stages are very important because they harbor unique characteristics and events that affect not only the lives of the patients, but also their caregivers. In advanced stages, patients suffer from gradual deterioration in cognitive ability and functional impairments, which imposes a heavy burden on the public health system and families. Both direct and indirect costs of institutionalization are staggeringly large (4). These factors require a need for revision of existing health advisory and the below-mentioned concerns should be appropriately addressed before devising further health policy.

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