Memory, mood and behaviour: what belongs to ageing and what belongs to illness.
5 articles
Searching for a word more slowly than before is ordinary. Forgetting recent events, repeating the same question, getting lost on a familiar route or no longer managing medication is not. Psychogeriatrics deals with exactly that boundary, and with the fact that it is almost always crossed without anyone daring to name it.
It also covers two things that are very common and very poorly detected: depression in older people, which rarely looks like sadness and presents instead as fatigue or diffuse aches; and behavioural disturbance in dementia, which is almost always the expression of a need, a pain or a fear rather than aggression.
The articles gathered here explain when to worry, what a memory assessment actually looks for, and what helps day to day.
Premiers signes, examens du diagnostic, évolution, traitements et conseils au quotidien : le dossier complet pour les patients et leurs familles.
Elle se cache derrière la fatigue, les douleurs et les plaintes de mémoire. Fréquente, grave et pourtant très bien traitable — à condition d'y penser.
Oublier un nom n'est pas la maladie d'Alzheimer. Apprenez à distinguer les oublis bénins des signes qui doivent alerter.