Dementia represents a major public health challenge for the world with over 100 million people likely to be affected by 2050. A large body of professionals is active in diagnosing, treating, and ca...

The Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders series provides clear, careful explanations that offer readers insight into what these conditions are, what causes them, how people live with them, and th...

James M. Noble, MD, MS, CPH, FAAN is Associate Professor of Neurology, in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, and the G.H. Sergievsky Center at Columbia Univ...

Patricia Boswell is a licensed practical nurse (LPN) who has worked in home healthcare settings as well as in private duty nursing, hospice, group homes, and senior living centers. She is a certifi...

Growth in the incidence of dementia presents major challenges to global healthcare systems. As the burden of dementia in non-Western cultures grows, developing nations are expected to overtake deve...

This book looks at dementia and considers topics including: diagnosis and differential diagnosis of dementia; rapidly progressive dementia and its imitators; young onset dementia; depression and wh...

Winner of the BMA 2011 book awards: psychiatry categoryWinner of the Australian Journal of Ageing book of the year awardThis definitive work on dementia and related disorders has been fully updated...

Lynn Phair and Valerie Good are the authors of Dementia: A Positive Approach, published by Wiley.

Dave Pulsford is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Rachel Thompson is Dementia Project Lead for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and is an Admi...

John T. O’Brien is a professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, UK. David Ames is director, National Ageing Research Institute and professor of Ageing and Health within the Uni...