Dementia in Denmark from a medical view.

The field of psychogeriatrics, including diagnosis and treatment of age-associated dementia, is still in its early years in Denmark. Most of the treatment of the elderly with psychiatric conditions lies in the hands of general practitioners and staff of somatic nursing homes. In a few places in Denmark, a more academic approach to the elderly patients has developed in general psychiatric hospitals. Psychogeriatric department D at The Psychiatric University Hospital in Arhus is an example. Treatment ideology, strategies, education, outpatient treatment and hospital-treatment is described, especially regarding age-associated dementia.