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This 5 page paper considers the way in which aggression and agitation may be treated in patients suffering from dementia. The paper includes behaviour management and the consideration of environmental factors as well as staff training. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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social conditioning factors and restraints are low such as when an individual is under the influence of drink or drugs or stress is playing an influential role. Even when it
occurs in these conditions there may be a multitude of underlying factors that manifest in the act of aggression, such as frustration or anger. However, when it appears in acute
psychiatric condition it can be more difficult to deal with, treatment is often pharmacological, but with recent legislation and concern over medical ethics there is an increasing need to be
able to treat aggression and agitation with non pharmacological treatments, this is especially true when we look at conditions such as dementia which are likely to occur in the older
more vulnerable patients. The use of drugs in these cases is often beneficial, but it is not always desirable and as such we need to consider how these patients
may be helped without reporting to drugs to control the episodes. When we remember that the most common dementias, such as that found in Alzheimers disease, are not reversible (Lehninger
et al, 1998). When we add to this the fact that for the older patients the risk that is associated with psychotropic drugs is not so favourable as the younger
patients, and as such may not be as acceptable or desirable (Saltzman, 1985). Other limiting factors in the use of drugs can
be seen in the additional proneness to some side effects which may be noted such with older patients being more prone to CNS side effects as well as the benefits
being relatively limited (Saltzman, 1985). The first stage in the non-pharmacological treatment of aggression or agitation must be seen as a questioning stage, with the caregivers looking at the environment
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