Agnosia Interferes With Daily Hygiene in Patients With Dementia

Patients with dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease, may not recognize that their clothes are dirty. They may see the food stains and discoloration of the clothes and yet because of their agnosia are unable to integrate these observations and deduce that their clothes are dirty and need to be c...

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Published in:Gerontol Geriatr Med
Main Authors: Hamdy, R. C., Kinser, A., Culp, J.E., Kendall-Wilson, T., Depelteau, A., Copeland, R., Whalen, K.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: SAGE Publications 2018
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Teaching Case Studies: Managing Aberrant Behavior In Patients With Dementia
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985542/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29900188
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721418778419
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