• Aust Fam Physician · Apr 2002

    Is it dementia? Which one?

    • Phil Popplewell and Pat Phillips.
    • Service Head, Geriatric Unit Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia.
    • Aust Fam Physician. 2002 Apr 1; 31 (4): 319-21.

    BackgroundPeople fear losing their identity or no longer being themselves. It can be devastating to see someone who spent their life with you turn into someone who looks like your loved one but who no longer recognises you and may be frightened, suspicious, hostile or violent.ObjectiveThis article gives practical guidelines with a recognition, definition and differential diagnosis of dementia.DiscussionDementia may not be obvious to the individual, the family or their family doctor and should not be simply attributed to 'Alzheimer's'. Dementias can be confused with delirium or depression and the different dementias have different prognoses and different interventions.

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