Question

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   1. Using the same framework as that used for defining the beginning and end stages of the family cycle (i.e., separate columns labeled Stage, Beginning, and End), delineate four stages of Alzheimer's Disease based on a threshold concept of the collective loss of function (i.e., eating, drinking, etc). Explain your rationale for why you divide where you do. Bear in mind that the timelineſ may vary widely from one loss to the next and unlikely to be equivalent as shown in the schematic. Control in Dementia Diagnosis Diagnosis Biographic Obtained death Biological death needed Patient Following plot Playing bades Sense of direction Sense of time Sense of humor Driving Sense of trust Conversation Cooking Playing bridge Writing Smoking Reading Loving you Brushing teeth Dressing Walking Drinking Full-time caregiver Professional caregiver Last opportunity for planned death

Answer 1

Staging based on the collective loss of function can be divided into 4 stages that

1. Early

• Social impact
• Personal impact

1. Late

• Social impact
• Personal impact

Social impact denotes the problems faced by them when interacting with others . In case of early impacts the patients fails to do a better conversation with others and in late impacts they even forgets their names.

And in personal impacts the difficulties they face to do even day to day activities. In early impacts forgetting on how to drive includes and in late impacts they forget even on how to drink.

So I thought categorising on such a basis would be more better than other normal 7stages. And the early times begins from starting till the biographic death of the patient occurs. Late impacts starts from biographic death till the biological death.