Optimal management of Alzheimer’s disease patients : clinical guidelines and family advice

  • 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.

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Author:Julia HaberstrohGND, Harald Hampel, Johannes PantelORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-255464
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S7106
ISSN:1178-2021
ISSN:1176-6328
Parent Title (English):Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Publisher:Dove Medical Press
Place of publication:Albany, Auckland
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2012/08/15
Date of first Publication:2010/05/07
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2012/08/15
Tag:caregivers; management; quality of life; treatment
Volume:6
Page Number:11
First Page:243
Last Page:253
HeBIS-PPN:357829921
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 3.0

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