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Diagnosis and Management of Dementia: A Manual for Memory Disorder Teams
edited by Gordon K. Wilcock, Romola S. Bucks, and Kenneth Rockwood, 416 pp, with illus, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-262822-4, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Arch Neurol. 2000;57:898.
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This book, with chapters composed by an international group of scientists-clinicians from a variety of disciplines, is essential reading both for groups developing a memory or dementia clinic and for team members of established clinics. This is a very practically oriented book written specifically for clinicians, but well grounded in science. It does not provide an extensive state-of-the-art review of the current knowledge, science, and theories regarding dementia. However, the how-to approach of starting and running a memory disorders clinic for patients and families with dementia is based upon the current knowledge and science of dementia. This book contains a depth of practical recommendations and suggestions rarely seen, and it lives up to the title of a "manual."
The book is divided into 3 sections: (1) establishing and organizing a dementia clinic, (2) diagnostic process, and (3) management. Additionally, there is an appendix that reports the results of a survey . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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