Summary: In this article, Barinaga talks about the use of behavioral strategies for those suffering from Alzheimer's. By putting them into an age category and using infantile strategies to communicate with them, skills are better retained and their emotions are far less aggressive.
Key Facts:
"Experts have learned that every patient goes through a predictable decline."
"Patients may lose some abilities faster than necessary because their caregivers underestimate what they can still do for themselves."
"Anti psychotic drugs or physically restraining them can cloud the patients' minds even further or increase their agitation."
"Find the causes of the troubling behaviors and avoid triggering them."
"By providing training appropriate to those ages, they can help the patients retain longer some of skills they would otherwise lose."
"Patients who had been dependent on aides to dress them could now dress themselves with guidance."
"Infantile reflexes appear in Alzheimer's patients are they decline."
Barinaga, Marcia. "Alzheimer's Treatments That Work Now." JSTOR. American
Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 Nov. 1998. Web. 31 Jan. 2015. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2897327>.
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