Personal Reflection Paper On Alzheimer's

I think from this excerpt there are two very important things for the nursing student to understand. I think the first is that Alzheimer’s is not just confusion, there are many other symptoms that accompany the confusion. The fact that things like irritability, irrational thoughts and loss of some physical components of life is part of the disease. By saying physical components I mean the health aspect as well as the fact that they may forget how to cook or eventually how to wash themselves or walk. The excerpt starts off with talking about the different moods that may be encountered. The second important aspect is the idea of giving them things to do that they enjoy to keep them happy. Although they may be confused or irritable many things …show more content…
I was there to witness her diagnosis and to care for her emotions to the diagnosis after. It was very hard for her to comprehend she was scared and in the times that she did remember she would always tell us to never forget that she loved us. Also, she informed us that she didn’t want her to be a burden and if at any point we needed to be put in a nursing home she would understand. So, with my great-grandmother I was able to see what she was feeling and how she felt before, during and after her diagnosis. With that being said we never put her in a nursing home we felt that between my grandmother, my parents, and I that we could work together to keep and we did just that. With that experience I got to understand what it was like to care for someone with Alzheimer’s at such an early age and also what emotions come to the family once they know what their loved one is going to go through. It is hard! It is hard on everyone to understand and cope with the diagnosis, but in the end the person needs to be kept happy and the family needs to love them as they did …show more content…
I believe that although one may begin to understand and empathize with a person that may have Alzheimer’s disease they nor anyone else will ever understand what exactly it is like to have it until they actually experience it. With each encounter the nurse may gain more empathy or understanding of what they say they are feeling no one but them knows how it feels deep down