Do we know all about Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia?

Copyright: © 2013 Kogoj A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. With the aging of population, dementia is becoming an increasingly prevalent mental disorder. Dementia is associated with progressive cognitive disability and a high prevalence of behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPSD) sometimes also named non-cognitive symptoms. Nearly all patients with dementia experience at least one behavioral or psychological symptom during the disease progress [1]. BPSD also contribute to increased stress and decreased quality of life for patients and their caregivers [2].