Key Geriatric Medicine topics and answers to common questions about older people and dementia
Aggressive behaviour in elderly persons.
Aggressive behaviour in elderly persons usually requires medications for treatment.
Dementia treatment.
Dementia treatment requires a holistic approach, not just popping a memory pill.
Agitation, hallucinations, paranoid delusions, aggression, wandering in dementia.
Many of these serious distressing symptoms are way under-treated!
Insomnia in elderly dementia patients.
Insomnia in elderly dementia patients causes massive carer stress.
Swallowing problems in dementia.
Swallowing problems with dementia are very common but commonly missed.
Frontotemporal Dementia.
Fronto-temporal Dementia challenging behaviours require expert treatment.