PMID- 12603188
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20030610
LR  - 20220311
IS  - 0025-729X (Print)
IS  - 0025-729X (Linking)
VI  - 178
IP  - 5
DP  - 2003 Mar 3
TI  - Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: a seven-tiered model of 
      service delivery.
PG  - 231-4
AB  - People with dementia usually experience behavioural and psychological symptoms of 
      dementia (BPSD) during the course of their illness. Currently, in Australia, 
      there is a lack of comprehensive planning for managing and preventing BPSD, and 
      the resources required for optimal care are inadequate and unevenly distributed. 
      We propose a seven-tiered model of service delivery based on severity and 
      prevalence of BPSD, ranging from no dementia through tiers of increasingly severe 
      behavioural disturbance to the propensity for extreme violence in a small number 
      of individuals. Each tier is associated with a different model of intervention. 
      People with dementia may move up or down between tiers depending on their 
      condition, their care and the intervention provided. Lower-level interventions 
      may prevent the need for the more intensive interventions needed when disturbance 
      becomes more severe.
FAU - Brodaty, Henry
AU  - Brodaty H
AD  - Academic Department for Old Age Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, Avoca 
      Street, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia. h.brodaty@unsw.edu.au
FAU - Draper, Brian M
AU  - Draper BM
FAU - Low, Lee-Fay
AU  - Low LF
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Australia
TA  - Med J Aust
JT  - The Medical journal of Australia
JID - 0400714
SB  - IM
MH  - Aged
MH  - Australia
MH  - *Delivery of Health Care
MH  - Dementia/classification/*psychology/*therapy
MH  - *Disease Management
MH  - Humans
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Patient Care Planning
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
MH  - Severity of Illness Index
EDAT- 2003/02/27 04:00
MHDA- 2003/06/11 05:00
CRDT- 2003/02/27 04:00
PHST- 2002/08/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2002/11/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2003/02/27 04:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/06/11 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2003/02/27 04:00 [entrez]
AID - bro10530_fm [pii]
AID - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05169.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med J Aust. 2003 Mar 3;178(5):231-4. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05169.x.