[Multiconceptual therapy in Alzheimer's disease].
SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL IMPACT: Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative dementia raising major public health concern in industrialized countries. The consequences are not only medical but also social and economical.


CONCLUSIONS
It is thus important to establish diagnostic principles, therapeutic goals, and global strategies guiding the behavior of physicians, family and patients faced with this dreaded disease. Currently, only a few rare symptomatic treatments are available, but research in this field points to potentially effective preventive and etiopathogentic therapeutic protocols associating drugs, social support, and psychotherapy.
Djemai Zoghlache
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Laboratoire de Pharmacologie expérimentale et clinique, Faculté de Médecine, Rennes.
Bürger
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Schück
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Möller
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Rapoport
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Allain
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Hampel
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D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D017028:Caregivers; D004358:Drug Therapy; D005192:Family Health; D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012944:Social Support