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Effect of Psychological Intervention for Visual Hallucinations in Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies Kazumi OTA 1 , Eizo ISEKI 1,2 , Norio MURAYAMA 1,3 , Hiroshige FUJISHIRO 1,2 , Heii ARAI 2 , Kiyoshi SATO 1 1PET/CT Dementia Research Center, Juntendo Tokyo Koto Geriatric Medical Center, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 2Department of Psychiatry, Juntendo University School of Medicine 3School of Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University Keyword: Dementia with Lewy bodies , Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia , Visual hallucination , Psychological intervention pp.845-853
Published Date 2011/9/15
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1405101968
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 We conducted a psychological intervention for visual hallucinations (VH) in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Psychiatrists and clinical psychologists specialized in dementia conducted this intervention with DLB patients and their families. In the present study, this psychological intervention was applied to 2 DLB patients with VH to examine its effect. The first step of the intervention is to assess whether the patients can discriminate between real objects and VH, i.e. awareness of VH. When the patients do not show VH awareness, we evaluate their cognitive function. If the patients have sufficient cognitive function, we explained the characteristics of the disease and the mechanism underlying VH. Finally, we divided the patients into 2 groups depending on whether or not they were capable of developing VH awareness. Further, the patients and their families in each group were given appropriate suggestions on how to spend time and create asuitable environment for living. Consequently, the patients and their families are expected to show VH acceptance, reduced fear and confusion about VH, and reduced frequency of VH, and to experience less frightening VH events.


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