Author in the Room® Teleconference
Laura N. Gitlin, PhD; Helen C. Kales, MD; Constantine G. Lyketsos, MD, MHS
Summary Points:
Interview with Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, author of Nonpharmacologic Management of Behavioral Symptoms in Dementia. Summary Points:
- Attending to behavioral symptoms is part of comprehensive dementia care and requires ongoing long-term management.
- Use 6 steps to systematically prevent, assess, manage, eliminate or reduce behavioral symptoms.
- Use combination of nonpharmacologic approaches.
- Keep trying—nonpharmacologic approaches are relatively adverse free.
- Create a health professional team to offset time needed for provision of nonpharmacologic approaches.
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JAMA Editor's Audio Summary
January 1, 2013
JAMA: 2013-01-01, Vol. 309, No. 1,
Editor's Audio Summary