Abstract
Dementia is a persistent or progressive neurologic syndrome that negatively affects cognitive functioning and leads to difficulties performing daily tasks. Dementia is a condition lasting more than 6 months, not present since birth, and not caused by delirium, physical illness, mental illness, substance abuse, or medication effects. The most common types of dementias are Alzheimer’s (35 %), vascular-Alzheimer’s (mixed) (15 %), vascular (pure) (10–20 %), and dementia with Lewy bodies (15 %). Dementias are predominantly due to protein errors including tauopathies, synucleinopathies, trinucleotide repeat disorders, and polyglutamine diseases, or damage caused by vasculopathy, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, autoimmune disease, brain tumor, brain injury, and infections. This chapter discusses a diagnostic nosology for dementia and key principles of assessment, intervention, and consultation.
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Stiers, W., Strong, J. (2017). Dementia. In: Budd, M., Hough, S., Wegener, S., Stiers, W. (eds) Practical Psychology in Medical Rehabilitation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34034-0_41
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