Alzheimer’s disease and dementia can cause aggressive behavior, even in people who have never been violent in their lives. These aggressive dementia behaviors can be scary and difficult for caregivers ...

Prioritizing nonpharmacologic strategies, enhancing staff training, and distinguishing Delirium Superimposed on Dementia (DSD) are vital to improving outcomes for hospitalized patients with Alzheimer ...

When your loved one receives a dementia diagnosis, a decline in cognition and memory is the main symptom you expect to see. But what you may not expect are behavioral symptoms like aggression, ...

Hazardous drinking at baseline was associated with neglect and psychologically aggressive behaviors across 21 days. Daily diaries of drinking and mistreatment showed that instances of neglect and ...

A new study reveals resident-on-resident attacks are not a problem unique to American nursing homes but more likely embedded in shared cultural expectations of institutional care and the stresses of ...

Behavioral and psychological symptoms are difficult for dementia patients and their caregivers, but despite research efforts, there are still gaps in knowledge about what causes or precipitates these ...

I’ve served for almost two decades as a consultant psychiatrist and medical director of a geriatric psychiatric unit. Our niche has been one of the most difficult: patients with advanced dementia, ...