Four times out of the eight times you have visited Mr. Heron, he has met you at the elevator near his room. Sometimes he is fully dressed; sometimes he is only partially dressed. He is always very anxious. He tells you, “The train is leaving and I have to get on it or I will be late.” You know that Mr. Heron was a high-school principal who lived in Mississauga and worked in downtown Toronto.
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Mrs. Black visits her husband every day and attempts to rationalize with him and talk him out of his bad moods. She appears to care for him very much and often tidies his room and changes his clothes. He usually unloads all of his feelings on her and she goes away feeling frustrated and guilty.
Answer :
Q. No : a) . Answer :
Alzheimers disease : it is defined as it is one of the neurological disorder, and it is a progressive disorders, it will cause the memory loss and destroys the other important mental functions.
* mood swings and behavioral changes also we will abserve here.
* here the client personality traits are anxiety, and forgetfulness, and showing some behavior like, training is going, I want to go, I am late like that he is showing his behavior.
* these types of personality traits we may seen in Alzheimers disease.
Q. No b) . Answer :
In Alzheimers disease the brain may affect.
* gradually it will cause the dementia or loss of memory.
* here the client is retired person, then also still he is thinking that he wants to go home and my train is missing like that he is behaving, so still he is remembering the previous days.
* and he is forgetfulness.
Q. No. c) answer :
Effective communication techniques for Alzheimer's disease clients :
1. Patience
2. Understanding
3. Good listening skills
These three are very important in these condition, because the clients are having here, mood swings and memory loss and forgetfulness so by patience we have to listen the things what ever is telling by the client.
* understand things what he is telling and why like that, and compare it either correlates with the situation or not.
* good listening skills may useful to understand clearly the patient problems.
* and also he is in angry so we must have to speak with him patiently.
* so that we can provide good health care.
Depression it a severe problem of older people, and it is mistaken with dementia because, almost symptoms of dementia they express in depression.
* these symptoms due to psychological illness rather than degenerative diseases.
So that's Way the depression mistaken with dementia.
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