Alzheimer’s is a horrible experience for everyone: the diagnosed person and the family members now turned caregivers. For the latter of these some have described it as worse than being the one who has the incurable disease. This is because the person with Alzheimer’s forgets and does not know what they are doing, that they are changing, whereas the family experiences the slow excruciating pain of seeing a loved one go through this disease and knowing that there is nothing you can do to restore what they once were. While watching The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s I witnessed many families and their experiences with Alzheimer's. The most heart wrenching scenes were where the family caregivers said things like ‘I hate him sometimes……
As talked about throughout the Ted-talk, Elizabeth Loftus explains how memory can be constructed and reconstructed. You, yourself can change your memory as well as others.…
The incident I am going to discuss in this paper is of Mr. P., an 85-year-old man, admitted to this facility about a year ago. His history includes coronary heart disease, cataract, dementia, hypertension, macular degeneration and Alzheimer’s. Mr P. scored 28 of 30 on the Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination; he missed the date and recalled 2 of 3 objects at 5 minutes (Folstein, Folstein, and McHugh 1973). His medications included Analgesics, anti-hypertensions, antipsychotics and baby aspirin.…
HISTORY: Ms. Copeland is a very pleasant 58-year-old white female who gives a history of several years of what she calls short-term memory problems. She has had no long-term deficits. No family history of dementia. Denies head injuries specifically the loss of consciousness although she did have a blow to the head four years ago. She has had no strokes, denies any current sensory or motor loss. She had a single seizure back about 30 years ago without recurrence. MRI scan done at that time was apparently negative.…
adults in the primary care setting. The Mini-Cog uses a three-item recall test for memory…
Good afternoon everyone! I hope you all did well on the midterm exam we had last week. This course has been a very interesting challenge to tackle so far, and the assigned readings for Week Five were no exception. We learned through the assigned chapters and article on Professor Elizabeth Loftus that memory, an aspect of every individual which many believe as infallible, is actually fallible. In fact, the memory of a human being can be manipulated or limited, either intentionally or unintentionally, through various ways. This can cause problems as small as a family disagreement, remembering you were somewhere you never were, or even a failure to accurately recall a special event; however, it can also affect the reputation and sometimes…
Mild short term memory loss is a brain function condition involving a development of cognitive impairments. It may occur as a transitional stage between normal aging and dementia. Memory loss is frequently seen as early stage of Alzheimer's disease. It can affect the body’s nervous system, for example having delirium. This is a sudden confusion of memory that leads to changes in thinking and behavior. Such as an infection which causes an older person to become severely confused. Certain medicines can also cause this. Mild short term memory loss can affect the urinary system too. If they forget to go to the washroom a urinary tract infection can result, which is usually caused by bacteria entering the urinary tract via the urethra tube that…
The patient name is Margaret. She is a clerical worker at manufacturing company. Recently, Margaret stopped going to her work due to many mental problems. When she came to the clinic, she complained about some of the feelings and the things that made her life abnormal. She said that she often awoke feeling deplorable on Monday’s. Moreover, Margaret explained that she suffers from Amnesia, which means that she lost the time and the memory. She rarely remembers what she usually does in the weekends. Margaret also complained that she can’t understand how sometime she would find a stranger man in her bed or receive a call from men that she never met, who called her “Janie”. Suddenly, while Margaret was describing her sufferance in the therapy session, she started to talk and to act like a kid who refers to herself as Suzie. Thus, based on these symptoms, it’s clear that she suffers from dissociative identity disorder…
Mr. Grey age 70, is accompanied by his wife who stated that for the past 10-12 months she has noticed that her husband has been experiencing forgetfulness, personality changes; and some memory loss, for example, inability to recognize familiar faces, places, or objects. Further, she stated that he continuously repeats the same stories, having forgotten that he has already told them.…
In the article “Different patterns of recollection impairment in confabulation reveal different disorders of consciousness: A multiple case study” they studied three different patients with confabulation affecting the way the patients remember and their conscious. Confabulation affected all three patients in different ways. In one patient confabulation affected the way they remembered their personal past, present, and future. In the second confabulation affected impersonal knowledge and the third patient was affected in both personal and impersonal knowledge of only past information. It was stated that the results of the research conducted supported the idea that processes that are involved in recollection have underlying disorders of consciousness.…
The person may feel as if he or she is having memory lapses — forgetting familiar words or the location of everyday objects…
AN D H OW TO REMEMBER Unless you have a photographic memory, you likely find it hard to remember everything you learn, even an hour or two after you learn it. Why? Research about how we remember and forget gives us a clue. 01…
Marianne is a 79 year old grandmother and retired local artist who seem to have short term memory loss. There are many concepts that apply in her condition, for instance, Crystallized intelligence, Fluid intelligence, Stemberg’s Theory of Intelligence, Erikson's integrity vs. Despair and death and dying.…
These days I walk into a room and forget why I went in there and it seems to be happening more frequently. It makes me wonder if I am losing my ability to remember anything because I am getting older. According to Merriam-Webster (2014) the definition of memory is: “The power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms.” But what about Multiple Intelligences, is there any impact made on a particular intelligence made by short term memory loss and age. As an individual grows older does their ability to recall a certain discipline they have learned when they were younger. In this article short-term memory loss and aging will be researched. This is a subject that is hits very close to home with me as I am facing the fact that I am middle aged and have to accept fact that the clock only goes forward and cannot be turned back.…
Definition: forgetting mean failure at anytime to recall an experience, when attempting to do, or to perform an action previously learned.…