Critical Analysis on Management of BPSD in Acute Psychiatry

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON MANAGEMENT OF BPSD
(BEHAVIOURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS OF
DEMENTIA) IN ACUTE PSYCHIATRY

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Table of contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
There is the incidence of the continued rise in the number of elderly population in every country
of the world. It is naturally creating the chance of developing the symptoms and the behavior that
indicate of psychological disorders. Dementia is observed to be one of the most common and
frequently occurring psychological manifestations (Preuss, Wong & Koller, 2016). This
incidence rate had automatically fostered the increasing relevance of management of behavioral
and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). It is not just alarming for the clinicians but
also equally relevant for the families of the people affected with such disordered manifestations
(Legere et al. 2018). Carla Patricia Freeman is one of the eminent personalities concerning the
field of Psychiatry and Mental Health increased alert is shown in her reports. More than 35
million of the population is found to be located in different regions of the world that are affected
with dementia. However, this prediction is found to get enhanced with time (von Gunten,
Schlaefke & Überla, 2016). The number of people affected is getting enhanced to about 115
million as predetermined by the year 2050. Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
(BPSD) are found to be commonly occurring among 70% to 90% of the population (Regier &
Gitlin, 2017). The economic costs, the caregiver burden, health-related costs, premature
placements within the nursing home and the detrimental quality of lives are found to be led as
consequences for Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). The
consequences and the results manifested due to the high rate of incidence of Behavioral and
psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are heinous. The level of cognition is undergoing
decline, and the disease is found to progressively lead towards deterioration. It shall become
natural to develop the symptoms of Alzheimer's dementia (AD) (Sampson et al. 2015).
Recognition in the process of Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) shall
encompass the pivotal aspect of management through patients. The clinicians are developing the
approach through syndrome towards management and incorporation of pharmacological and
non-pharmacological means and strategies.

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Discussion
When a clinical outlook is created regarding dementia symptoms varied dimensions are
possible to be taken into the paradigm of discussion:
Behavioral and psychological symptomatic representation of dementia:
Dementia is the process of psychologically categorized disease whereby the central attribute is
delineated to be the representation of cognitive impairment. There are multiple dimensions
adhering to which the brain processes are found to get disrupted. It is adhering to the disorder
that varied neuropsychiatric symptoms are taken into consideration (Jessop et al. 2017). It is
under the umbrella term of Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) that the
neuropsychiatric manifestations are vividly observed and depicted. It is through the delineated
perceptual paradigm, the thought contents, and the mood orientation that the behavior of the
affected beings is found to get channelized (McConnell & Karel, 2016). It is the category of
patients affected with dementia having Neuropsychiatric symptoms that are included within
Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) classification. They are typically
understood to show the characteristics of disturbances in their mood, thought processes, the
content of their thinking and the behaviors automatically get disrupted (Jennings et al. 2017).
Such affected individuals are most often found to depict experiences that are varied in
symptomatic representation. There might be a combination of symptoms prominent within the
individuals. This aspect is likely to differ among people according to the stage of the illness one
is passing through. Patients having greater severity are terms of dementia are found to be most
correlated with obtaining a very low score when administered with the Mini-Mental State Exam
(MMSE) (Lorusso & Bosch, 2017).
When critically analyzing the dementia factors the manifestations of visual hallucinations that
are found to be reported from patients affected with patients of this severity. In the case of
having Lewy Body Dementia, the traits of developing hallucinations are found to be more
common. Such dementia is often late to be diagnosed by the clinicians (McCausland et al. 2018).
There are often misleading treatments that are tried to be carried on by considering the dementia
manifestation as the characteristics of psychosis and schizophrenia. It is through other causative