1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910717344203321

Autore

O'Neil Maya E

Titolo

A systematic evidence review of non-pharmacological interventions for behavioral symptoms of dementia / / Maya E O'Neil and Michele Freeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington D. C. : , : Department of Veterans Affairs (US), , 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 69 pages)

Disciplina

616.83

Soggetti

Dementia - Treatment

Reviews.

Technical reports.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Evidence-based synthesis program."

"March 2011."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-47).

Sommario/riassunto

In 2004, the Office of the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Policy and Planning estimated that the total number of Veterans with dementia would be as high as 563,758 in FY 2010. The behavioral symptoms that are associated with dementia, such as agitation/aggression, wandering, and sleep disturbances, are associated with increased caregiver burden, decreased quality of life for the patient, and increased healthcare costs. It is estimated that behavioral symptoms occur in as many as 90 percent of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Moreover, it is the behavioral symptoms that are most often cited by caregivers as the reason for the placement of individuals with dementia into residential care. Psychotropic medications are commonly used to reduce the frequency and severity of the behavioral symptoms of dementia. There is little evidence, however, that such interventions are effective, and their potential side effects are frequent and often hazardous. It has been reported that the use of atypical and typical antipsychotic medication is associated with the increased risk of death. Because of the limited benefits and the



potential harms associated with psychotropic medications, non-pharmacological interventions for the behavioral symptoms associated with dementia may be an attractive alternative to pharmacological treatment. The purpose of this report is to review systematically the evidence on non-pharmacological treatments for behavioral symptoms of dementia.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910765895603321

Autore

Walters Sarah

Titolo

Fertility, conjuncture, and difference : anthropological approaches to the heterogeneity of modern fertility declines / / edited by Philip Kreager and Astrid Bochow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

USA/UK, : Berghahn Books, 2017

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations, map

Collana

Fertility, reproduction and sexuality : Social and cultural perspectives ; ; volume 36

Disciplina

304.6/32

Soggetti

Fertility, Human

Human reproduction

Demographic anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Key to Fertility -- 2. Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900–2000 -- 3. Between the Central Laws of Moscow and Local Particularity -- 4. Feeling Secure to Reproduce -- 5. Ambivalent Men -- 6. Accounting for Reproductive Difference -- 7. Understanding Childlessness in Botswana -- 8. Low Fertility and Secret Family Planning in Lesotho -- 9. ‘The Doctor’s Way’ -- 10. Demographers on Culture -- 11. Vital Conjunctures Revisited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and



processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition. This collection brings together anthropological case studies, placing them in a comparative framework of compositional demography and conjunctural action.  The volume addresses major issues of inequality and distribution which shape population and social structures, and in which fertility trends and the formation and size of families are not decided solely or primarily by reproduction.