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Dementia : Treatments

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Treatments List

Treatments could include:
  • Reality Orientation

Treatments Overview Articles

Dementia
Treatment depends on the condition causing the dementia. Some people may need to stay in the hospital for a short time.Stopping or changing medications that make confusion worse may improve brain function.
Source:ADAM
Date:February 13, 2008
Dementia
Treatment of dementia starts with treatment of the underlying disease, where possible. The underlying causes of nutritional, hormonal, tumor-caused, and drug-related dementias may be reversible to some extent.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Dementia
Treatment of dementia begins with treatment of the underlying disease, where possible. The underlying causes of nutritional, hormonal, tumor-caused and drug-related dementias may be reversible to some extent.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Dementia
Family physicians, medical specialists such as neurologists and psychiatrists, physical therapists, counselors, personal caregivers, and family members can all be part of the treatment team for someone afflicted with dementia.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders

Specific Treatments Articles

Behavioral Therapy
Behavioral therapy, or behavioral modification, is a psychological technique based on the premise that specific, observable, maladaptive, badly adjusted, or self-destructing behaviors can be modified by learning new, more appropriate behaviors to ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Behavior Modification
The box-like structure and people''s misunderstandings about behavioral psychology contributed to the misconception that Skinner was experimenting on his daughter and also probably prevented the crib from becoming a commercial success. People got t...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Behavior modification
Behavior modification is a treatment approach, based on the principles of operant conditioning, that replaces undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement.Behavior modification is used to treat a variet...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Behavior Therapy
Behavior therapy was developed during the 1950s by researchers and therapists critical of the psychodynamic.treatment methods that prevailed at the time. It drew on a variety of theoretical work, including the classical conditioning principles of ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
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