FYSM 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Deter, Apraxia, Agnosia
2 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
To be diagnosed with dementia, you must have 2 domains impaired at least. These domains must have declined from previous functioning. As well as affecting your day to day life and cannot be explained by a variety of other disorders. Alzheimer"s is the major cause of most dementia cases and will continue to increase, as our population grows older: 1 in 9 older people have alzheimer"s. Auguste d = first alzheimer patient discovered by dr. alzheimer. Difficulties with iadls and not badls: moderate stages. Agnosognosia-no longer are aware to what they are sick with. Loss of biographical memories, living in the present. Basic motor function are impaired, primitive reflexes emerge. Survival shortened by: malnutrition, dehydration, infections, inability to communicate needs. Death frequently die to pneumonia, myocardial infarction, septicsemia. They also encounter psychiatric symptoms such as delusions, capgras syndrome and hallucinations as well as depressive symptoms.
