Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Rehabilitación de las demencias. |
| Alternate Title: |
DEMENTIA'S REHABILITATION. |
| Authors: |
Heres-Pulido, Julieta1 |
| Source: |
Archivos de Neurociencias. Suplemento I, Vol. 11, p80-86. 7p. |
| Subjects: |
TREATMENT of dementia, SICK people, MEDICAL care, PATIENTS, SEDATIVES, FAMILIES, REHABILITATION, QUALITY of life |
| Abstract (English): |
Treatments for patients with dementia manifestations depend mainly on the family, on the social services and health professionals. To determine whether it must be treated and how it must be treated depends in the way in which society and professionals conceive it. If we restrict the treatment from the biological point of view, then we will have a very difficult, inexorable and progressive problem and generally when the patient's behaviour is disastrous, the family itself asks for sedatives for the sick and medicines which lessen the anxiety for the person which takes care of the sick or for the family member in charge. If we tackle it as a biopsychosocial, multicausal and multimodal problem, we could intervene to look for ways of intervention in certain psychological and social aspects to enhance and solve some problems mainly those of the handling of the disease by the family and by the person who takes care of the sick. This article reviews key concepts about rehabilitation, recovery of functions and offsetting strategies mainly addressed to improve the quality of the patient's life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Spanish): |
La atención de los enfermos con cuadros demenciales depende principalmente de la familia, los profesionales del cuidado de la salud y de los servicios sociales. Lo que determina si debe ser tratada y cómo, depende de la forma en que la sociedad y los profesionales conciben la enfermedad. Si limitamos el abordaje al punto de vista biológico el problema se encara como intratable, inexorable, progresivo, y por lo general cuando la conducta del paciente es catastrófica, la misma familia demanda sedación para el enfermo y medicamentos que disminuyan la ansiedad del cuidador primario o de la familia en general. Si lo abordamos como un problema biopsicosocial, multicausal y plurimodal podremos intervenir para buscar vías de intervención en ciertos aspectos psicológicos y sociales, mejorar y solucionar algunos problemas importante del manejo que la familia y los cuidadores hacen de la enfermedad. Este artículo revisa conceptos claves sobre rehabilitación, recuperación de funciones y estrategias compensatorias dirigidos básicamente a mejorar la calidad de vida del paciente demenciado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
MedicLatina |
