Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Dementia: Relevance to Subtype Dementias and Medical Conditions
Mentor Information
Hillary Rouse (School of Aging Studies)
Description
Dementia is one of the major causes of disability among older people, and the total quantities of patients with intellectual decay keep on ascending as the populace ages. An increase in the number of adults results in increases in the number of people with Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-related dementia, or ADRD. There are noncognitive side effects of dementia that happen in 98% of people sooner or later in their sickness and are regularly the most upsetting to parental figures and patients themselves. There are also cognitive symptoms for dementia, as well as behavioral or psychiatric symptoms. These symptoms also tie with neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS). Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), including aloofness, gloom, rest problems, mental trips, hallucinations, psychosis, tumult, and animosity, are extremely pervasive to people with dementia. In a populace-based examination assessing individuals with dementia, indifference is the most continuous side effect, trailed by sadness and disturbance/aggression.
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Dementia: Relevance to Subtype Dementias and Medical Conditions
Dementia is one of the major causes of disability among older people, and the total quantities of patients with intellectual decay keep on ascending as the populace ages. An increase in the number of adults results in increases in the number of people with Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-related dementia, or ADRD. There are noncognitive side effects of dementia that happen in 98% of people sooner or later in their sickness and are regularly the most upsetting to parental figures and patients themselves. There are also cognitive symptoms for dementia, as well as behavioral or psychiatric symptoms. These symptoms also tie with neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS). Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), including aloofness, gloom, rest problems, mental trips, hallucinations, psychosis, tumult, and animosity, are extremely pervasive to people with dementia. In a populace-based examination assessing individuals with dementia, indifference is the most continuous side effect, trailed by sadness and disturbance/aggression.
