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Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: Physical Nonaggressive Agitation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2005
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Agitated behaviors occur frequently in patients with dementia. These behaviors affect the quality of life of the dementia sufferers and their caregivers. For example, these behaviors can greatly complicate everyday management in familiar surroundings and in institutional care, and they predict premature nursing home admission.
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