Mouriz Corbelle, RominaCaamaño Ponte, José LuisGarcía Tuñas, LauraDosil Díaz, CarlosFacal Mayo, David2022-01-122022-01-122019Mouriz, R., Caamaño Ponte, J., García Tuñas, L., Dosil, C., & Facal, D. (2019). Dementia and Challenging Behaviors in Gerontological Centers. A Case Report. Geriatrics, 4(1), Article 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics4010015http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27339Among the main challenges in geriatric and gerontological centers, we consider, central, the individualized attention to those elderly persons with challenging behaviors, to the extent that it is possible to design preventive strategies that delay cognitive deterioration and minimize consequences of behavior disorders. The first step will be to develop the correct interpretation of symptoms and deficits as a guarantee of a correct diagnosis which, in addition to not always being easy, has to be adapted to the progression of the disease. We present the case of a 68-year-old institutionalized individual, with an initial diagnosis of diffuse Lewy bodies dementia, analyzing his cognitive and behavioral evolution, and the pharmacological and non-pharmacological approach to the caseeng© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Cognitive impairmentChallenging behaviorsLewy bodies dementiajournal article10.3390/geriatrics40100152308-3417open access