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pro vyhledávání: '"Teaching Case Studies: Managing Aberrant Behavior In Patients With Dementia"'
Autor:
Audrey Depelteau, Kara Dickerson, Ronald C. Hamdy, Amber E. Kinser, Kathleen Whalen, Tracey Kendall-Wilson
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
Diabetes mellitus is common among older people. Hypoglycemia is a sign of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus and may lead to irritability, agitation, anxiety, hunger, and an excessive food intake, which in turn may make the control of diabetes more
Autor:
Audrey Depelteau, Tracey Kendall-Wilson, Kara Dickerson, Rebecca Copeland, Amber E. Kinser, Kathleen Whalen, Ronald C. Hamdy
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Insomnia is a common problem in older people, especially in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) whose circadian rhythm is often compromised. Insomnia exerts such a toll on caregivers that it is frequently the primary reason for seeking to i
Autor:
Audrey Depelteau, Ronald C. Hamdy, Jennifer E. Culp, Amber E. Kinser, Rebecca Copeland, Tracey Kendall-Wilson, Kathleen Whalen
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Patients with dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease, may not recognize that their clothes are dirty. They may see the food stains and discoloration of the clothes and yet because of their agnosia are unable to integrate these observations and de
Autor:
Amber E. Kinser, Kathleen Whalen, Ronald C. Hamdy, Rebecca Copeland, Audrey Depelteau, J. Culp, Tracey Kendall-Wilson
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Visual well-formed hallucinations, fluctuations in the level of cognition, and alertness and extrapyramidal signs are core features of dementia with Lewy bodies. Some patients realize that what they are seeing or hearing are just hallucinations and l
Autor:
Tracey Kendall-Wilson, Rebecca Copeland, Kathleen Whalen, Amber E. Kinser, J. V. Lewis, Ronald C. Hamdy, Audrey Depelteau
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Repetitive questioning is a major problem for caregivers, particularly taxing if they are unable to recognize and understand the reasons why their loved one keeps asking the same question over and over again. Caregivers may be tempted to believe that
Autor:
J. V. Lewis, Tracey Kendall-Wilson, Rebecca Copeland, Amber E. Kinser, Ronald C. Hamdy, Audrey Depelteau, Kathleen Whalen
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 3 (2017)
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 3 (2017)
Choices are often difficult to make by patients with Alzheimer Dementia. They often become acutely confused when faced with too many options because they are not able to retain in their working memory enough information about the various individual c
Autor:
Ronald C. Hamdy, Rebecca Copeland, Kathleen Whalen, Audrey Depelteau, Tracey Kendall-Wilson, Amber E. Kinser, J. V. Lewis
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 3 (2017)
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 3 (2017)
Patients with dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease and particularly those in early stages, are susceptible to become victims of predators: Their agnosia (see Case 1) prevents them from detecting and accurately interpreting subtle signals that o
Autor:
Amber E. Kinser, Tracey Kendall-Wilson, Audrey Depelteau, Rebecca Copeland, Ronald C. Hamdy, J. V. Lewis, Kathleen Whalen
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 3 (2017)
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 3 (2017)
In this case study, we present a patient with preexistent posttraumatic stress disorder and psychosis who has been recently diagnosed with Dementia with Lewy Bodies. He is experiencing vivid hallucinations. What went wrong between him and his wife as
Autor:
Ronald C. Hamdy, Audrey Depelteau, Amber E. Kinser, Tracey Kendall-Wilson, J. V. Lewis, Kathleen Whalen, Rebecca Copeland
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
Repetitive questioning is due to an impaired episodic memory and is a frequent, often presenting, problem in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (amnestic type). It is due to the patients’ difficulties learning new information, retaining it, and re
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and geriatric medicine
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
Dining in a restaurant with a loved one who has dementia can be an ordeal, especially if the expectations of the caregiver do not match those of the patient and the restaurant environment is not suitable for patients with dementia. The size of the di