Physical complications of dementia: 12 months research in a special ward for the elderly with senile dementia

Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-24

  Ukai, Katsuyuki ^a   Mizuno, Yutaka ^a   Ozaki, Kimihiko ^a   Sekiya, Takahiro ^a   Tomita, Kenji ^a   Ito, Takao ^a  

^a Ichinomiya City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD); Dementia; Geriatric psychiatry; Medical psychiatry; Physical complication

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BILE DUCT STONE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONVULSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; GENITAL BLEEDING; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLAUCOMA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEMATEMESIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER INJURY; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENILE DEMENTIA; STOMACH ULCER; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

EID: 33847724222     PISSN: 13463500     EISSN: 14798301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8301.2007.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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