Diagnosis and Treatment of Senile Dementia
Reisberg, Barry / Bergener, Manfred
Senile dementia is one of the major health problems confronting mankind in this century. To some extent the problem has, of course, always existed. The condition was sufficiently troubling to classical philosophers and jurists to have apparently provoked comments by Solon in approximately 500 B. C. and Plato in the fourth century B. C. (Plutarch 1967 translation, Plato 1921 translation). Medical recognition can be traced at least as far back a...