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The Psychiatric Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease
Author(s) -
Merriam Arnold E.,
Aronson Miriam K.,
Gaston Patricia,
Wey SuLing,
Katz Ira
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1988.tb03427.x
Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , psychiatry , disease , dementia , alzheimer's disease , population , pathology , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
The authors used a semistructured interview administered to primary family caregivers to assess the prevalence and nature of psychiatric pathology in 175 well‐diagnosed community‐residing Alzheimer's disease patients. Symptoms that are indicative of depression in the cognitively intact were virtually ubiquitous in this demented population. A variety of psychotic features were also regularly reported. The implications of these findings for the recognition and treatment of reversible psychiatric impairment are discussed.