Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia

Abstract

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 choices available. In this case study, we describe how an essentially simple benign task (choosing a dress to wear) can rapidly escalate and result in a catastrophic outcome. We examine what went wrong in the patient/caregiver interaction and how that potentially catastrophic situation could have been avoided or defused.

Emotion Recognition Techniques for Geriatric Users: A Snapshot

“…While other studies tend to have pre-set classification models that may apply for younger subjects, they may be inefficient for elderly users. This is due to the fact that the elderly tend to be more unpredictable and aberrant in their behaviors [4], which could serve as anomalies or outliers for current trained classification models. It could be plausible that with age it also gets harder for a person to infer and express their own emotions.…”

“…Both age groups require similar care and a relatively similar level of dependence on caregiver. The elderly also have a tendency to be unpredictable with their movements and emotional responses to stimuli [4]. The study by Jamil, Khir, Ismail and Razak [20] added that there are earlier studies that have taken on gait recognition.…”

“…This leads to caregiver burden as family members try to determine how to best care for or how to assist the person [4]. There is generally an increasing number of elderly persons living alone worldwide [5].…”

Evolving Evidence of Calreticulin as a Pharmacological Target in Neurological Disorders

“…123 The 5′A, that is, Amnesia, Anomia, Apraxia, Agnosia, and Aphasia, are symptoms that arise due to vulnerability of brain regions coupled with impaired neuronal circuitry in cortex and hippocampus. 124,125 Clinically hallmarked by accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles, constituting hyperphosphorylated tau proteins, AD still remains unpredictable and incurable. 126−128 As neuronal death in AD can occur in part by oxidative stress, prior reports have underlined C1q in generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS).…”

“…Being the most common type of dementia, AD cases are expected to escalate owing to population aging . The 5′A, that is, Amnesia, Anomia, Apraxia, Agnosia, and Aphasia, are symptoms that arise due to vulnerability of brain regions coupled with impaired neuronal circuitry in cortex and hippocampus. , Clinically hallmarked by accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles, constituting hyperphosphorylated tau proteins, AD still remains unpredictable and incurable. − …”