The treatment of senile dementia

Dementia-The treatment of senile dementia

2009 World Alzheimer's Day theme is "Diagnosing dementia: early benefit from early action", how early action is that the patient and family is very concerned about the issue. Many people think that Alzheimer's disease is an incurable disease, so do not seek medical treatment or soon to give up the treatment. In actual fact, at present, although there is no cure Alzheimer's disease drugs, but existing drugs and measures that the relatively slow progress of the disease in patients, in part to improve its clinical manifestations.

After a number of scientific research and clinical trials, and now have some drugs can improve memory loss and other cognitive symptoms, to promote the restoration and maintenance of activities of daily living, control, hallucinations, paranoia and other psychotic symptoms, improve patient quality of life. Existing treatments include cholinesterase inhibitors and NMDA receptor antagonists and so on. At present there are several pre-clinical studies and clinical trials were initially found to effective medicines, such as γ-secretase inhibitors, and was likely to cause the treatment of diseases, control of progression of the disease, are being or will be a large-scale global clinical.

In addition, the rehabilitation of some simple means, such as the recollection of events, physical orientation, also on the patient's role in promoting functional recovery. Currently, however, many of the elderly patients with dementia did not receive formal treatment, care for those who did not get the correct guidance. Therefore, patients and caregivers, should be timely medical treatment, regular referral, in neurological and psychiatric doctors under the guidance of rational drug use, to be standardized treatment.

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