Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia: Consent, Quality of Life, and Dignity

Degenerative forms of dementia are progressive, incurable, fatal, and likely to cause suffering in conjunction with personal incapacity. Timely diagnostic disclosure and counseling can facilitate important advance care planning. The risk of harm associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) of dem...

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Autor principal: Passmore, Michael J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23853768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/230134
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description Degenerative forms of dementia are progressive, incurable, fatal, and likely to cause suffering in conjunction with personal incapacity. Timely diagnostic disclosure and counseling can facilitate important advance care planning. The risk of harm associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) of dementia often has to be balanced against the risk of harm associated with medication management of NPS. A palliative care framework can help preserve autonomy, quality of life, comfort, and dignity for patients with NPS.
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spelling pubmed-37058392013-07-12 Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia: Consent, Quality of Life, and Dignity Passmore, Michael J. Biomed Res Int Review Article Degenerative forms of dementia are progressive, incurable, fatal, and likely to cause suffering in conjunction with personal incapacity. Timely diagnostic disclosure and counseling can facilitate important advance care planning. The risk of harm associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) of dementia often has to be balanced against the risk of harm associated with medication management of NPS. A palliative care framework can help preserve autonomy, quality of life, comfort, and dignity for patients with NPS. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3705839/ /pubmed/23853768 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/230134 Text en Copyright © 2013 Michael J. Passmore. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia: Consent, Quality of Life, and Dignity
title_full_unstemmed Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia: Consent, Quality of Life, and Dignity
title_short Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia: Consent, Quality of Life, and Dignity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705839/
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