TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking Psychosis in Dementia
T2 - An Analysis of Antecedents and Explanations
AU - Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska
AU - Golander, Hava
AU - Cohen, Rinat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© SAGE Publications.
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - An in-depth analysis of qualitative data regarding antecedents, consequences, and descriptions of delusions of persons with dementia (PwD) provided by family caregivers is presented. Three broad classifications of reasons given behind types of delusions are included, namely environmental factors, personal factors, and dementia, with dementia being the most prominent factor. We observed an overlap between known cognitive symptoms of dementia and the characteristics of the reported "delusions" in dementia. It therefore appears that what is often classified as a delusion of a seemingly psychotic nature is in fact the PwD's disorientation combined with an attempt to fill in gaps caused by cognitive deficiencies.
AB - An in-depth analysis of qualitative data regarding antecedents, consequences, and descriptions of delusions of persons with dementia (PwD) provided by family caregivers is presented. Three broad classifications of reasons given behind types of delusions are included, namely environmental factors, personal factors, and dementia, with dementia being the most prominent factor. We observed an overlap between known cognitive symptoms of dementia and the characteristics of the reported "delusions" in dementia. It therefore appears that what is often classified as a delusion of a seemingly psychotic nature is in fact the PwD's disorientation combined with an attempt to fill in gaps caused by cognitive deficiencies.
KW - aging
KW - caregivers
KW - dementia
KW - psychosis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85023752028&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1533317517703478
DO - 10.1177/1533317517703478
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AN - SCOPUS:85023752028
SN - 1533-3175
VL - 32
SP - 265
EP - 271
JO - American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias
JF - American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias
IS - 5
ER -