Dementia in Denmark from a medical view
Gulmann, N.C.
Danish Medical Bulletin 39(3): 251-253
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0907-8916 PMID: 1638892 Document Number: 401453
The field of psychogeriatrics, including diagnosis and treatment of age-associated dementia, is still in its early years in Denmark. Most of the treatment of the elderly with psychiatric conditions lies in the hands of general practitioners and staff of somatic nursing homes. In a few places in Denmark, a more academic approach to the elderly patients has developed in general psychiatric hospitals. Psychogeriatric department D at The Psychiatric University Hospital in Arhus is an example. Treatment ideology, strategies, education, outpatient treatment and hospital-treatment is described, especially regarding age-associated dementia.