Clients with Disabilities - Alzheimer's Disease
- Created by: Megan Billyeald
- Created on: 06-06-13 13:19
Alzheimer's Disease
- Most common form of dementia
- Can being in mid-adulthood
- More commonly affects older people
- Onset is usually gradual and can be difficult to detect
Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease
- Increased forgetfulness - particularly new information
- Everyday problem solving becomes a struggle
- Confusion - not being able to follow a conversation, making mistakes about dates and times
- Disorientation
- Impaired performance or learned skils
- Increase in action slips
- Loss of social skills
- Disturbed sleep pattern
- Incontinence
- Lack of inihibition
- Inability to find the correct word
- Inability to understand the speech of others
- Hallucinations
- Lose the ability to produce and understand speech
Cause of Alzheimer's Disease
- In younger people the cause is presumed to be genetic
- Causes of most cases are not understood
- Abnormalities in brain chemistry seem to…
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