In the meantime, patients are becoming afflicted with this disease on a daily basis with no hope for recovery save for the hope that the advancement of the disease comes at a slower pace for them then for most. Time is not on the side of the patient for as the days, weeks and months that go by, the disease advances as surely as the sun rises. Having become afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease certainly can be a depressing and even humiliating experience to the patient and their families. Often people who are not familiar with the disease may seem to be hesitant to interact…
C. Keeping the house safe is very important for Alzheimer patient. Caregiver need to closely asses the house, looking at each room and its objects through the eyes of someone with Alzheimers. Look at the decoration of the house and in kitchen and see if this could be potentially harmful to someone with the condition. Could Mrs. Kendel easily getting lost go outside? Make sure that all the safety device is working properly, such as the smoke detector and fire extinguisher. Cabinets with medications or alcohol should be lock. Add extra lights to doorway, bathroom, bedroom and stairways prevent accidents and reduce disorientation. Don’t let Mrs. Kendel use the knife and stove by herself, meal preparation should be doing together with Mr.…
Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking, and social/behavioral skills. The direct cause of it is not yet fully understood, but based on studies, the disease seems to be a result of the combination of genetic material, lifestyle, and environmental factors that affect the brain. While Alzheimer’s is most commonly found among people above the age of 65, it is not what would considered a normal part of aging. However, it is the most common risk factor for this disease. As the age of a person reaches 65, the risk of getting this disease doubles every five years.…
Alzheimer’s disease has been referred to as the “family disease”. Care for an individual with Alzheimer’s can be very difficult to cope with. It has a greater impact on the family members involved with the individual suffering from this disease, than other chronic diseases. There are support groups that can help family members adjust to this life changing disease. Alzhiemer’s disease also has an effect on businesses. Businesses are effected when they have employees who are also caregivers for people with Alzheimer’s disease. These cost to the business owners, includes paying out for: absenteeism; productivity losses; worker replacement cost; continuing insurance for workers on leave and temporary worker replacement fees; and Employee Assistance…
Moore, Elaine A, and Lisa Moore. Encyclopedia of Alzheimer 's Disease: With Directories of Research, Treatment and Care Facilities. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2012. Print. This piece of text is very informational in the way it describes Alzheimer’s and the places where a patient can go for help and therapy. The text explains everything about Alzheimer’s and it helps the reader to further understand what the disease actually entails. The encyclopedia is very descriptive, but it can be bland and dry. Since it is an encyclopedia, there are a lot of graphs that try to help the reader relate the information portrayed through a graph. The text is decent, however, it is very informational and boring to read. It is useful for those who want to the complete understanding of what Alzheimer’s is. Although it is useful, it is not a particular text that you would want to spend your Saturday afternoon reading. It is a reliable source because it is an encyclopedia and it has been revised multiple times before it has been published.…
The film Away From Her, is a screenplay adaptation from the short story Bear came over the Mountain by Alice Munro. The story focuses around the relationship of Fiona and Grant, an Ontario couple married over 40 years. The couple is forced to face that fact that Fionas forgetfulness is actually Alzheimers disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, she realizes that she can no longer live at home. Fiona has too much self-pride for herself, and too much pity for Grant, to subject him to her deteriorating mind. She makes the decision on her own to check into a comfortable nearby nursing home. The nursing home they choose has a no-visitors policy for the first thirty days of the patients stay, to let them adjust to their new settings. When Grant visits Fiona after the first month of her staying in the nursing home, he finds out that not only has she forgotten him, but Fiona has transferred her feelings to another man. The other man is Aubrey, a wheelchair bound mute patient at the nursing home. His wife Marian later moves Aubrey out of the home. As the distance between Grant and Fiona increases, Grant must sacrifice his own happiness for Fiona. This moving story, was told from the perspective of the director and screenplay writer, Sarah Polley. I believe that she used the films focus of Alzheimer, humour and intimacy between the characters to show an honest relationship of a forty-year marriage.…
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease and the most common cause of dementia. Alzheimer’s afflicts about four million Americans and is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Furthermore it is the leading cause of mental impairment in elderly people and the reason for a high percentage of admissions in nursing homes, assisted living homes, and other long term elderly care facilities. Most patients found with this disease are affected by hallucinations and delusions.…
In 1906, Dr. Alois Alzheimer was the first one to recognize the abnormality of a brain affected with Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. With Alzheimer’s the connections between the brain cells deteriorate and die, which causes the memory loss. There are many myths surrounding Alzheimer’s disease. “It is a normal part of aging” is one of the biggest. While some memory loss is expected with aging, Alzheimer’s is concerned with a severe amount of memory loss. The severity can limit a person’s ability to perform daily tasks. “Older people are the only ones who get it” is one that seems to go hand-in-hand with Alzheimer’s being a normal part of aging. While the majority of those who are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are between the ages of 65-80, there are cases where early onset can be detected as early as ones 40s or 50s. Past treatments included treating some of the symptoms because there was no known cure. Medication to treat depression and memory loss were able to help some of the symptoms, but some had seen cognitive effects because of this.…
Imagine yourself along with other family members sitting around talking and having a good time while watching television. Your grandmother is reminiscing and telling you stories of her younger days. Then you notice she has strange look about herself and begin to ask where am I and who house is this? This is just a small portion of the many examples that I have experience watching my grandmother battle with severe dementia. It is disease that causes the loss of cognitive functioning of thinking, remembering, and reasoning. In addition, to the behavior abilities that will interfere with a person’s daily life and activities.…
Alzheimer's is a strange and mysterious illness. There are many frequently asked questions that must be answered.…
Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In most people with Alzheimer’s, symptoms first appear after age 60. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia among older people. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning—thinking, remembering, and reasoning—and behavioral abilities, to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities. Dementia ranges in severity from the mildest stage, when it is just beginning to affect a person’s functioning, to the most severe stage, when the person must depend completely on others for basic activities of daily living.…
Dementia is a progressive brain impairment that interferers with memory and basic living functions. According to the scholarly journal, “Dementias”, dementia affects about 46 million people worldwide. Approximately 7.7 million new cases of dementia form every year. This occurs in both men and women over the age of sixty. Dementia affects patient memory, and impairs abstract thoughts and functions such as aphasia and apraxia. Along with the again process, dementia can be caused by depression, brain tumors, alcoholism, drugs, chronic lung diseases, and Parkinson’s Disease. (Ferrini, 2013) It has become aware that elders living in nursing homes are more common of obtaining a mental disorder verse elders who love at home in communities. Some of the most common mental illnesses are depression, schizophrenia, and drug/ alcohol abuse are not common among elders but cognitive impairment increases with age. The most common ones among elders are depression, anxiety, sleep, substance use, dementia and…
Progressive mental deterioration in old age has been recognized and described throughout history. It wasn’t until 1906 that a German physician, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, identified a collection of brain cell abnormalities as a disease. Since the discovery more than 100 years ago, there have been many scientific breakthroughs in the research of Alzheimer’s disease. In the 1960s, scientists discovered a link between cognitive decline and the number of plaques and tangles in the brain. Which than was it that the medical community recognized Alzheimer’s as a disease and not as part of aging. In 1901, a 51 year old woman was admitted to the state asylum in Frankfurt. She was suffering from cognitive and language deficits, auditory hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and aggressive behavior. She was studied by Alois Alzheimer, a doctor at the hospital. During the eighteenth century, the term dementia had a clinical and a legal usage, referring to states of psychosocial incompetence regardless of age, reversibility or pathological antecedents. Despite the efforts of countless organizations dedicated to promoting awareness about Alzheimer’s disease, many misconceptions still exist regarding the disease and the individuals who suffer from it. Memory loss is the hallmark and core feature of Alzheimer’s disease. Patients are not aware of the memory loss and even the relatives try and protect the patient by giving misleading information to the patient.…
When talking about dementia it is usually described as a syndrome which effects the brain. It is a very complicated illness and there are a lot of symptoms and problems that come along with this degenerative disease. One of the main problems of these being memory loss and thinking clearly. Patients can often forget simple things like what time of day it is the names familiar people and events in their life. They can also not realize that some activities he/she engages in are ones that now require supervision, such as cooking, ironing, or bathing. So it is important for the nurses to communicate this with the patient that the may need some help in doing self care.…
Alzheimer’s disease is the decline of mental function and the most common form of dementia (Parsa, 2011). Dementia is a term used to describe multiple areas of functions that have progressive declines, such as “decline in memory, reasoning, communication skills, and the ability to carry out daily activities” (Banerjee, 2012, p. 706). Banerjee (2012) further explains that in conjunction with those declines, and at any point of the disease, individuals with dementias could develop symptoms of behavioral and psychological troubles such as “depression, psychosis, aggression, and wandering, causing problems in themselves, [and] complicate care” (p. 706).…