Nonpharmacological Approaches for Dementia Management

Different methods such as pharmacological and nonpharmacological are used to treat Alzheimer dementia. Pharmacological treatments are faced with limitations such as side effects. Nonpharmacological treatments are treatments that do not involve drugs. These treatments are often used for people with Alzheimer’s with the aim of maintaining or improving cognitive function, overall quality of life, and the ability to perform daily life activities. Physical exercises, dance, music therapy, and decreasing stress are interventions for the management of dementia. Physical exercise and dance can involve sensory system and cause movement in patients that not only provide happiness but decrease anxiety and depression in patients. Music therapy causes to remember the past and memories that can help to prevent memory degradation. Other interventions have the positive effects in patients with dementia. Such interventions can be used in patients with dementia and/or for prevention of dementia. In the current chapter, we aim to review nonpharmacological interventions for the treatment of dementia with more details.