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The psychiatric symptoms of Alzheimer's disease
A E Merriam1, M K Aronson, P Gaston
1Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
The authors used a semistructured interview administered to primary family caregivers to assess the prevalence and nature of psychiatric pathology in 175 well-diagnosed community-residing Alzheimer's disease patients. Symptoms that are indicative of depression in the cognitively intact were virtually ubiquitous in this demented population. A variety of psychotic features were also regularly reported. The implications of these findings for the recognition and treatment of reversible psychiatric impairment are discussed.