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Severe behavioral agitation and aggression—including restlessness, wandering, assaultiveness, or screaming—may accompany late-life psychosis, dementia, or mood disorders, with particularly high prevalence rates in nursing homes. Severely depressed or very anxious elderly individuals can also become behaviorally disruptive, endangering themselves and others as well as decreasing the quality of their lives (Banerjee et al. 2006). Behavioral and psychiatric symptoms develop in more than half of community-dwelling patients with dementia (Lyketsos et al. 2000), and virtually all individuals with dementia will display behavioral complications at some point. In nursing homes, rates of behavioral and psychiatric symptoms are estimated to be as high as 80% in patients with dementia (Testad et al. 2007; Zuidema et al. 2007); over the course of a lifetime, the risk of these symptoms is estimated at 100% (Lyketsos et al. 2000).
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