Oversight on Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, 1983: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Aging of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, to Examine the Progress Made in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, Focusing on Federally Funded Research on the Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the Disease, June 28, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 262 pages |
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Page 80 - The following report has been prepared by the National Institutes of Health of the Department of Health and Human Services in response to this request. BACKGROUND Senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) is Indeed a disease of catastrophic proportions. Now regarded as the major form of old age "senility," it Is a surprisingly common disorder that affects the cells of the brain.
Page 194 - Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health 615 North Wolfe Street Baltimore, Maryland 21205...
Page 73 - ... professionals who focus on the mental health problems faced by senior citizens. AAGP would like to thank the Subcommittee for its continued strong support for increased funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over the last several years, particularly the additional funding you have provided for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...
Page 72 - ... Not to be overlooked is the need for assistance to the family as a whole. Particularly when the person with senile dementia is staying with the family, a homemaker or other aide might be sought. As the disease progresses, the family often experiences tremendous stress and pain at seeing unsettling changes in their loved one, and they commonly feel guilty over not being able to do enough. To the extent that family members can offer emotional support to each other and perhaps seek professional...
Page 41 - Director of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke [NINCDS] of the National Institutes of Health [NIH].
Page 197 - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461 Noyes, William Albert, Jr..
Page 22 - Aging, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, and the National Institute of Mental Health).
Page 161 - Jr. (1975): Slow virus infections of the nervous system and the Laboratories of Slow, Latent and Temperate Virus Infections.
Page 157 - A considerable array of formal and informal relationships exists between the NIMH Center for Studies of the Mental Health of the Aging and the National Institute on Aging. Research applications of interest to both organizations are dually assigned. On occasion, projects with dual assignments, approved by the primary institute but for which sufficient funds are not available, have been transferred to the secondary institute for funding consideration.
Page 72 - Modifying the surroundings can reduce stresses imposed by environmental factors. There is the matter of safety, as in the need to protect the person from wandering toward a stairway and subsequently falling. There is the matter of lowering the individual's frustration level, such as by placing different cues in the immediate environment to combat memory loss and to reduce resulting stress and disorganization. There is the matter of finding the most protective but least restrictive setting for care...