title: Stories about medications taken by parents with dementia
author: Yongtae Kwak
publisher: Dementa Books
List price: 16,000 won
■Table of contents
By issuing a revised and expanded version
leaving message
Chapter 1. Iliad, Gods, Heroes, and Fate
Chapter 2. Containment?
Chapter 3. Pepsi Challenge
Chapter 4. Hitler’s gift (neurotransmitter story)
Chapter 5. Howl’s Moving Castle (Key and Lock)
Chapter 6. White as snow, Me too
Chapter 7. VX, a cure for Alzheimer’s?
Chapter 8. Trial by ordeal
Chapter 9. Breakthrough
Chapter 10. Pattern Interrupt
Chapter 11. Gye Young-bae
Chapter 12. Kocha or Balcha
Chapter 13. Memantine
Chapter 14. Will it be ineffective if it doesn’t get better?
Chapter 15. Temperance or Bondage
Chapter 16. Awakening
Chapter 17. Antipsychotic drugs
Chapter 18. Antidepressants
Chapter 19. Comfort food
Chapter 20. Pseudo-dementia? (Pseudo-Pseudo dementia?)
Chapter 21. Anti-anxiety drugs
Chapter 22. Kindle
Chapter 23. Sleep 163
Chapter 24. If sleep can catch him at night〮〮···
Chapter 25. Stimulants or stimulants
Chapter 26. Placebo
Chapter 27. Chongmyeongtang
Chapter 28. Anything
Chapter 29. Optimal treatment or best treatment
Chapter 30. The Dark Ages
Chapter 31. Magic bullet
Chapter 32. Memories of a hermit crab
Chapter 33. The Yata Tribe and the Magician
stop writing
■Book introduction
From the perspective of a guardian who struggles day by day, there are many cases where nothing is accurate and it is confusing… If I don’t understand my parents who have dementia, I won’t know what I will do or what I will have to carry with me in the end. – From 「Leaving Letter」
Once degenerative dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease develops, it is difficult to completely cure it. However, with appropriate drug treatment, it is possible to maintain or extend a more meaningful life within the natural course of the disease. – From 「Chapter 1. Iliad, Gods, Heroes, and Fate」
Most behavioral disorders seen in dementia are not stable. Over time, these symptoms change and go away. … The patient’s symptoms must be understood and accepted to some extent. Therefore, you actively need help from people around you. – From 「Chapter 2. Containment」
I say what I want to say at that time. “No matter what the thoughts or positions of the patient’s guardians are, the patient, who is the weakest, should be the center of happiness here, so let’s think again from the patient’s perspective. “I hope you don’t think of your problem as the patient’s problem.” – From 「Chapter 10. Pattern Interrupt」
For me, my mother’s food is comfort food, but for her, the grizzled face of her son who enjoys eating that food is comfort food. – From 「Chapter 19. Comfort Food」
If you ask, “Can dementia be cured?” I have nothing to say. There are diseases that can be treated, and there are diseases that cannot be treated. So, when a patient shows symptoms of dementia, we must first find the cause. Dementia that occurs in old age is mostly Alzheimer’s dementia caused by aging, vascular dementia related to cerebrovascular disease, and other degenerative dementias. – From 「Chapter 20. Pseudo-Dementia」
Often times, patients are put on medication, which is the wrong way to do it. The medication must be tailored to the patient. The moment a patient is diagnosed, the person sometimes disappears and only the name of the disease remains. – From 「Chapter 21. Anti-anxiety drugs」
If you have a parent who has trouble sleeping, check their eyes before prescribing sleeping pills. If you don’t see yourself reflected in those eyes, if you don’t see the depth of your parents, you may be missing something. – From 「Chapter 23. Sleep」
Even with the same drug, patients often improve dramatically just by rearranging the dosage and order according to the patient’s lifestyle or disease. Just as a good chef determines whether to serve hot food first, fish later, or stew or stir-fry only by looking at the customer’s complexion. – From 「Chapter 28. Anything」
Because we cannot be perfect, we need to understand everyone: the medicine, the disease, the patient, the guardian, and the therapist. That will be the process of pushing the rock up, even if it is painful for parents, family members, and society who are struggling with dementia. – From “Stopping Writing”
■Publisher book review
– Dementia experts explain the effectiveness and limitations of dementia medications, and the essence and core of treating dementia patients!
– Introduces the effectiveness and limitations of dementia treatments. However, as you read, you will understand your parents with dementia better.
– A book in which a dementia expert provides essential and useful information about the medications taken by parents with dementia in an easy and fun way through humorous writing!
In an era where there are one million dementia patients, many people see piles of medicines that their parents suffering from dementia receive every time they go to the hospital, and sometimes argue with their parents who refuse to take medicine, thinking that so many medicines are causing cognitive dysfunction in their parents. We are curious about what effect it has on mental and behavioral symptoms that are difficult to understand, and worry about the best treatment and care methods.
This book provides a variety of in-depth information about the mechanism of action, effectiveness, limitations, and side effects of dementia treatment drugs that guardians and care workers who care for parents with dementia are curious about and would benefit from knowing. However, even though it is professional content, it is not written in a difficult way, like organizing a thesis.
The author, who has treated numerous dementia patients since the 1990s and written numerous papers and books, explains various information about dementia treatments and treatments in an easy and fun way with his unique witty writing so that the general public can easily understand them. In addition, even if the treatment is the same, the author considers an approach that takes into account each patient’s individual situation and symptoms, such as cognitive function status and behavioral characteristics, and the author’s article, which emphasizes optimal customized treatment for each patient, is naturally related to the treatment of dementia patients. It makes you think about the core of care.
This is a must-read book for those who want to better understand and care for their parents with dementia. You may be able to obtain practical information that can help prevent trial and error that may occur in the process of taking medication for dementia patients.
For readers who want a deeper understanding of dementia, we recommend reading the author’s other works, “My Parents’ Strange Behaviors” and “Dementia Beyond the Fence.”
■Author introduction
author: Yongtae Kwak
Born in 1965
Graduated from Yonsei University College of Medicine and received master’s and doctoral degrees from the same university.
Completed residency in neurology at Yonsei University and obtained a neurologist specialty.
Listed in Marquis Who’s Who, a global biographical dictionary, in 2000
Expert member of the Presidential Occupational Medicine Development Committee in 2006
Won the Best Paper Award from the Dementia Society in 2013 and 2014
This and numerous papers and works
Currently Director of Yongin Hyoja Hospital, Adjunct Professor of Neurology at Yonsei University
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2023-12-20 02:44:19
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