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The Essential Guide To Behavioural Changes In Dementia:Understanding Anxiety, Depression, Delirium, Hallucinations, And Agitation For People With Dementia

James Warner

Priyanka Pradhan

Did you know that hallucinations, anxiety and personality changes can be symptoms of dementia? This introductory guide explains the most common, but often misunderstood, behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, with reassuring advice for people with dementia and their families. With straightforward language and real-life case studies, this guide shows the challenges that people with dementia can face, and what family members, carers and people with dementia themselves can do to tackle them. Covering common issues such as anxiety, depression, hallucinations and mood changes, and their causes, impacts and potential treatment options, this is the ideal starting point to understanding this lesser-known side of dementia.

James Warner

James Warner is Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and is also Medical Director of Halcyon Doctors. He is co-author of The Pocket Guide to Understanding Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, Second Edition. Priyanka Pradhan is a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist specialising in neurodegenerative disorders and cognitive rehabilitation. She works both in the independent sector and at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Priyanka Pradhan

Dr Priyanka Pradhan is a chartered clinical psychologist and registered clinical neuropsychologist at St George's Hospital in London. She specialises in behavioural activation, cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness based cognitive behavioural therapy and traumatic brain injury. Dr Pradhan has worked as a consultant clinical neuropsychologist in independent practice for over seven years. During her treatments, her aim is to draw upon all aspects of the patient including physical, emotional, cognitive, social and cultural status providing neuropsychology services to clients and families that present with a wide range of psychological and clinical problems.

Anna Leggett is a writer and coach. She has a particular interest in mindfulness, meditation, neuroplasticity and nutrition and the power of the human mind and spirit to overcome challenges. In 2016, she sustained a concussion and soft-tissue injuries in a car accident. She went on a long recovery journey in which she learnt a phenomenal amount about the brain, body and healing. She has applied what she learnt to the whole of her life and now wants to share those valuable insights and lessons with others.