TY  - JOUR
A1  - Haberstroh, Julia
A1  - Hampel, Harald
A1  - Pantel, Johannes
T1  - Optimal management of Alzheimer’s disease patients : clinical guidelines and family advice
T2  - Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
N2  - Family members provide most of the patient care and administer most of the treatments to patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Family caregivers have an important impact on clinical outcomes, such as quality of life (QoL). As a consequence of this service, family caregivers suffer high rates of psychological and physical illness as well as social and financial burdens. Hence, it is important to involve family caregivers in multimodal treatment settings and provide interventions that are both suitable and specifically tailored to their needs. In recent years, several clinical guidelines have been presented worldwide for evidence-based treatment of AD and other forms of dementia. Most of these guidelines have considered family advice as integral to the optimal clinical management of AD. This article reviews current and internationally relevant guidelines with emphasis on recommendations concerning family advice.
KW  - caregivers
KW  - management
KW  - quality of life
KW  - treatment
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25546
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-255464
SN  - 1178-2021
SN  - 1176-6328
VL  - 6
SP  - 243
EP  - 253
PB  - Dove Medical Press
CY  - Albany, Auckland
ER  -