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- Title
Treatment in a ward for elderly patients with dementia in Japan.
- Authors
Taniguchi, Shogo; Narumoto, Jin; Shibata, Keisuke; Ayani, Nobutaka; Matsuoka, Teruyuki; Okamura, Aiko; Nakamura, Kaeko; Shimizu, Hiroshi; Fukui, Kenji
- Abstract
Japan has become the world's most aged country. The percentage of elderly people in Japan is estimated to reach 25.2% in 2013, and the number of patients with dementia is estimated to reach 2.5 million in 2015. In addition to its deterioration of physical function and activities of daily living (ADL), behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) often become major clinical problems, greatly annoying patients and their caregivers. In Japan, we utilize wards for elderly patients with dementia (WEDs) for BPSD treatment. However, there are few studies investigating the effectiveness of treatment in a WED. In such treatment, physical complications are a challenge physicians must overcome while treating BPSD and safely returning patients home or to the institutions in which they live. Therefore, we investigated the effectiveness of treatment in a WED, focusing on physical complications.
- Publication
Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2013, Vol 9, p357
- ISSN
1176-6328
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2147/NDT.S41581