Dementia
Book chapter
Muller, Nicole and Mok, Zaneta Wei Yan. (2021). Dementia. In In Damico, Jack S., Müller, Nicole and Ball, Martin J. (Ed.). The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders pp. 609 Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119606987.ch26
Authors | Muller, Nicole and Mok, Zaneta Wei Yan |
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Editors | Damico, Jack S., Müller, Nicole and Ball, Martin J. |
Abstract | Dementia and neurological conditions leading to dementia have had an increasing impact on healthcare and healthcare planning around the world in recent decades. This chapter aims to situate dementia into a context suitable for students, practitioners and researchers in the field of communication sciences and disorders. The dementia categories most commonly referred to both in the media and the scientific literature are irreversible dementias. Patterns of progressive neurological changes that are typically associated with different diseases leading to dementia involve changes both within and between brain cells, such as abnormal protein deposits. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration gives rise to several types of dementia. Vascular dementia is caused by deficits in blood supply resulting in cell death. Dementia rating scales are used as part of diagnostic assessment, and in order to track and quantify the progression of dementia severity. |
Keywords | dementia; speech; neuropathology; communication; speech disorders; linguistics |
Page range | 609 |
638 | |
Year | 01 Jan 2021 |
Book title | The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Place of publication | United States |
Edition | 2nd |
Series | Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics |
ISBN | 9781119606963 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119606987.ch26 |
Web address (URL) | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/9781119606987.ch26 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 01 Mar 2021 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 07 Nov 2024 |
Additional information | © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd |
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, |
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