title: [Personality and Dementia].
abstract: Previous studies have looked into the relationships between personality and dementia from three hypothetical points of views: 1) that personality type is a risk factor for dementia, 2) that personality changes occur before receiving a diagnosis of dementia, and 3) that premorbid personality traits define behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) after receiving a diagnosis. This article overviews all three perspectives of the studies, after explaining the character and characteristic attributes of each perspective.
authors.affiliation: Research Team for Human Care, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology.
authors.forename: Yukie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Masui
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D001526:Behavioral Symptoms; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D012307:Risk Factors