Alzheimer's disease

Personality changes and behavioral problems such as agitation, delusions, and hallucinations may result. “The onset of symptoms is slow and insidious, and the course of disorder is generally progressive and deteriorating” (2015). • In what stage of Alzheimer’s disease is this client? What criteria did you use to determine this? The fact that he is exhibiting personality changes, has deteriorating grooming habits, having trouble understanding news events, having difficulty managing personal…

retire and not bother to do anything anymore. But now that there is such a thing as superagers, we have the power to actually continue doings things no matter how old we are and there is a great reason as to why we should. With age comes diseases, such as alzheimer's, muscle atrophy, dementia, and arthritis. Working hard allows people to keep their brain in shape so that they can retain information. In order to truly be a superager, people need to also exercise which helps their body. I think…

information and forming new memories, or remembering old memories. In most cases, amnesia is a temporary condition, lasting from a few seconds to a few hours, but the duration can be longer; few weeks to few months, depending on the severity of the disease.…

Cognitive impairment and chronic mental illness are conditions that need special attention when noted. These changes can impact the older adult’s ability in performing their activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). According to Touhy and Jett (2012), cognitive changes are often overlooked and undiagnosed by healthcare providers that may lead to greater impairment and functional decline, because of missed early intervention and treatment (p.376).…

on staff with the VAHCS (veterans health clinics) here in Cedar Rapids. As part of her work she assesses individuals for a variety of neurocognitive disorders and changes in cognitive functioning. First predictors of a possible neurodegenerative disease is often of an overall unkempt appearance. The individual may…

middle income countries, by 2050 this proportion is projected to rise up to 71%. Many people are living with the thought that dementia is a disease, however it is not. In actuality, dementia is made up of a number of different diseases. The Alzheimer 's Research of United Kingdom identifies dementia as an “umbrella term for the symptoms caused by the diseases.” These symptoms include but are not limited to memory loss, confusion, and personality change. The most common cause of dementia is…

When discussing the effects of nutrition on the brain it is hard to not to discuss late adulthood. Whether it be in terms of general cognitive decline or more severe decline, such as Alzheimer's Disease, there is a plethora of research and literature looking into this relation. Developmentally, older adulthood is associated with cognitive decline. While some functioning, such as some forms of memory, improve later in life, declining executive functioning skills, like attention, are factors in…

Dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (DAT) is a common form of dementia that affects individual’s memories. They can be long term or short term and can consist of loss of recent conversation, events and names. The article “Emotional Recognition from Face, Voice, and Music in Dementia of the Alzheimer Type” focused on the “emotional recognition from both face and voice” (Drapeau, Gosselin, Gagon, Peretz, & Lorrain, 2009). According to Drapeau et al., during the onset stages of Alzheimer’s disease…

Psychological Disorders Losing track of one’s thoughts is a common occurrence when the mind is preoccupied with a certain task. Eventually, one comes back to reality and realizes they have forgotten their train of thought. This forgetfulness can become frustrating and annoying for many people as it can become truly inconvenient to lose information randomly. Data from Statistics Canada (2015) suggests that around 2.3% of the Canadian population, who were aged 15 years and older, were living with…

processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. Dementia is a disease that deals with memory loss so that means it’s not something temporary. When dementia was first discovered? Frau Auguste D. was credited of the discovery of dementia in 1906. He found out about dementia and tested this disease and made his final statement that this disease is connected to memory loss or Alzheimer’s. This disease is not a thing that…