Dementia: beyond disorders of mood

摘要: This editorial will present the growing argument in research literature that mood disorders, as defined by psychiatric diagnostic criteria, do not well serve individuals with dementia. is important because anxiety and depression are our most used influential ways of understanding a highly prevalent personally experience dementia: emotion. As such, there need to review how disorders currently conceptualised since they may have limited applicability for dementia, consider what alternatives might be. Agitation offered lesson imprecise descriptions behaviour can exclude internal world people In explore emotional experiences dementia understood, we lie beyond mood.