title: [Psychosocial therapy of patients with dementia].
abstract: The progressive cognitive and behavourial disturbancies in dementia diseases cause great emotional burden to patients, their families and caregivers. To relief this burden and to facilitate adequate coping strategies, psychosocial therapies intend to improve cognitive functions, self care abilities and emotional wellbeing of dementia patients. The therapeutic interventions address the patients, their caregivers and the adaption of the environment. Psychosocial therapies can be divided into cognitive training methods, behaviour orientated concepts, emotional orientated approaches and family interventions (1, 2, 12, 19). Most of these psychosocial therapies are only poor validated in randomized controlled trials. Nevertheless, they hold great promise to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of dementia patients and their caregivers. Thus they should be considered to be an integral part of a comprehensive therapeutic approach to dementia patients and their families.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck. peter.gurka@uibk.ac.at
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gurka
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Marksteiner
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012960:Socioenvironmental Therapy
vernacular_title: Die psychosoziale Therapie von Patienten mit Demenz.