Try: Care recipients cr with alzheimer’s often show behavioral and psychiatric symptoms of the disease the following is a brief description of the behavioral and psychiatric symptoms for many crs when alzheimer’s disrupts memory language thinking and reasoning these effects referred to as "cognitive symptoms" of the disease the term "behavioral and psychiatric symptoms" describes a large group of additional symptoms that occur to at least some degree in many but by not means all individuals with alzheimer’s disease in the early stages of disease people may experience personality changes such as irritability anxiety or depression in later stages other symptoms may occur including sleep disturbances; agitation physical or verbal outbursts general emotional distress restlessness pacing shredding paper or tissues yelling ; or delusions firmly held belief in things that are not real ; or hallucinations see hearing or feeling things that are not there many crs with alzheimer’s and their families find behavioral and psychiatric symptoms to be the most challenging and distressing effects of the disease these symptoms are often a determining factor in a family’s decision to place a loved one in residential care they also often have an enormous impact on care and quality of life for crs living in long-term care facilities information references adapted from mace n & rabins p 2006 the 36-hour day baltimore the johns hopkins university press
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Categories: Caregiver Needs&Support, Cognitive Intellectual, Medical Physical
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Keywords: Alzheimer alzheimer’s
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