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  • 15 November 2022

When responsive and reactive meet organic? Treatment implications of language use in the era of #BanBPSD

  • Author: The Dementia Centre
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Debate rages about the extent to which behavioural changes in the context of dementia represent either the consequences of brain changes as the disease progresses, versus a reasonable response to unmet needs. Are these behaviours responsive, reactive or organic?

Read the editorial piece by Dementia Centre members Stephen Macfarlane, Mustafa Atee, Thomas Morris, Colm Cunningham in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

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