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Cover 1 Half title 2 Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Preface 14 Acknowledgments 26 1 Dementia 32 Is dementia a disease? 33 Does a diagnosis of dementia mean that the person is demented? 33 Why is it important to make the distinction between dementia and demented? 33 What is the definition of the syndrome called dementia? 34 Why are there differences in performance on standard tests versus in everyday life? 36 Does the person diagnosed reveal deficits consistently? 39 What does this mean for care partners? 39 Why care partner and not caretaker? 41 Does a diagnosis of dementia mean “the long goodbye”? 46 2 Alzheimer’s Disease: Biological Aspects 49 What does Alzheimer’s disease do to the brain? 50 Is there a genetic component? 51 Does the existence of plaques and tangles in the brain mean that one has Alzheimer’s disease? 52 What causes plaques to develop at all? 54 How is Alzheimer’s disease diagnosed? 54 Are there some other biomarkers that can be used for diagnosing probable Alzheimer’s disease? 55 What sorts of memory problems are caused by Alzheimer’s disease? 56 Can we mistake word-finding problems for more serious pathology in a person w

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Steven R. Sabat

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