A 71-year-old man is brought to A&E by police as his wife called them regarding his increasingly aggressive and threatening behaviour | Medibuddy
21st June 2023

A 71-year-old man is brought to A&E by police as his wife called them regarding his increasingly aggressive and threatening behaviour

A 71-year-old man is brought to A&E by police as his wife called them regarding his increasingly aggressive and threatening behaviour. You take a collateral history from the wife. She reports that the patient has become increasingly agitated in the last year and is shouting at her a lot. She also reports he seemed unbothered when one of his best friends died from cancer. He has also been forgetting words sometimes. He has a known diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration.

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