Current issues of medico-social rehabilitation on an outpatient basis: dementia patients

Dementia is one of the most common and severe diseases of older age according to its health and social consequences. Almost 95% of patients with cognitive impairment live in families. In addition to cognitive impairment different behavioural and psychiatric symptoms are observed in patients with dementia. The onset of behavioural disorders in the patient family members creates more problems than lack of cognitive functions, and is the most frequent cause of hospitalization, because there is a need in expensive form of medical care. In this regard, rises the significance of adaptation to the conditions of such a person residing in the family and his rehabilitation on an outpatient basis.

dementia, cognitive deficits, adaptation, rehabilitation