Impulsive, Disinhibited Behavior—Dining in a Restaurant
| Autor: | Kathleen Whalen, Audrey Depelteau, Tracey Kendall-Wilson, Ronald C. Hamdy, Amber E. Kinser |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
cognition
Evening media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:Geriatrics 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Promotion (rank) Teaching Case Studies: Managing Aberrant Behavior In Patients With Dementia Alzheimer’s/dementia medicine Dementia Alzheimer s dementia 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Daughter Cutlery caregiving and management Advertising anxiety confusional states medicine.disease Information overload lcsh:RC952-954.6 Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology Confusional states 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Gerontology and geriatric medicine Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 4 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2333-7214 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2333721418756994 |
| Popis: | 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 dining area, lighting, background music or noise, décor of the room, number of customers, variety of the items on the menu, number of plates and cutlery on the table, in addition to flowers, candles, and other decorations on the table are all potent distractors. There are so many stimuli; the patient can be overwhelmed with information overload and not able to focus on the main purpose of the event: have dinner and especially enjoy the other person’s company. In this case scenario, we present a 62-year-old man diagnosed with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). His daughter “invited” him to have dinner with her at a very fancy restaurant to celebrate her promotion at work. Unfortunately, whereas the evening started very well, it had a catastrophic ending. We discuss what went wrong in the patient/daughter interaction and how the catastrophic ending could have been avoided or averted. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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