Intended as a practical guide for health professionals caring for Alzheimer's disease patients in institutional settings, this book emphasizes workable approaches to common problems in long-term care for demented patients. Discussions by internationally recognized experts cover clinical assessment of dementia in the nursing home, why autopsies are performed, pharmacologic issues, coping with care-giver stress, bioethical issues, and a multidisciplinary approach to providing special services for institutionalized Alzheimer's patients and their families, including services to ethnic minority elders. The editors...can be commended for pulling together a text that will serve as a reference work for a wide audience from the most experienced clinicians to the newest of caregivers.>>>> (James T. Howard) It is rare to see such a diversity of topics addressed by well-known experts in a thorough, but succinct, fashion.>>>> (Creighton H. Phelps) ...authoritatively and comprehensively addresses an important gap in the Alzheimer's disease care literature.>>>> (Murray Raskind) ...authoritatively and comprehensively addresses an important gap in the Alzheimer's disease care literature. (Murray Raskind) The editors...can be commended for pulling together a text that will serve as a reference work for a wide audience from the most experienced clinicians to the newest of caregivers. (James T. Howard) It is rare to see such a diversity of topics addressed by well-known experts in a thorough, but succinct, fashion. (Creighton H. Phelps)