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JAMA: 2012-11-21, Vol. 308, No. 19, Author in the Room™ Audio Interview
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Interview with Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, author of Nonpharmacologic Management of Behavioral Symptoms in Dementia. Summary Points:
- Attending to behavioral symptoms is part of comprehensive dementia care and requires ongoing long-term management.
- Use 6 steps to systematically prevent, assess, manage, eliminate or reduce behavioral symptoms.
- Use combination of nonpharmacologic approaches.
- Keep trying—nonpharmacologic approaches are relatively adverse free.
- Create a health professional team to offset time needed for provision of nonpharmacologic approaches.
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