From symptom palliation to disease modification: Implications for dementia care

Gary J. Kennedy

From symptom palliation to disease modification: Implications for dementia care

Gary J. Kennedy

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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Abstract

Present treatments for dementia are largely palliative, providing symptomatic but temporary improvement. In contrast, agents that promise disease modification offer the hope of prevention, arrest, or deceleration of decline. However, enthusiasm for these new agents must be tempered by acknowledgment of their inevitable limitations within the present standard dementia care.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	30-34
Number of pages	5
Journal	Primary Psychiatry
Volume	14
Issue number	11
State	Published - Nov 2007

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Psychiatry and Mental health

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From symptom palliation to disease modification: Implications for dementia care

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