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Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia - Coggle Diagram
Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia
Dementia
What is is?
Individual changes
Thinking
Reasoning
Memory
Causes
Alzheimer's
Subtypes
Vascular dementia
What is it?
Decline
Thinking skills
Oxygen and nutrients
Brain cells
Process
Blocked
Blood flow
Brain
Lewy body dementia
Characteristics
Progressive
Build up
Alpha-synuclein
Damage brain cells
Symptoms
Hallucinations
Sleep problems
Alzheimer's
What is it?
Common cause of
Dementia
Brain disease
Progressive
Features
Plaques
Beta-amyloid
Proteins
Tangles
Tau
Twisted fibers
Kill cells
Alzheimer's stages
Asymptomatic
Means
Biological changes
No cognitive symptoms
Mild cognitive impairment
Stage
Loss
Memory
Cognitive hability
Patients characterstics
Can perform
Most activities
Develop
Dementia
Symptoms
Forgetting important information
Difficulty with making sound decisions
Early stage
Progressive loss
Independence
Symptoms
Problems coming up with the right word
Forgetting something that was just read
Middle stage
Infer
Person's daily activities
Symptoms
Forgetting events or one's own personal history
Confusion about where they are or the day of the week
Late stage
Ocurrs
Major personality changes
Infer
Daily activities
Person 'll need
Personal care
Symptoms
Have more trouble communicating
Lose awareness of recent experiences as well as of their surroundings
FDA-approved treatments
Non drug tratments
Treats
Behaviours
Comfort
Physical
Emotional
Tips for coping symtoms
Have rest times between lively events
Give the person an object to hold that makes them feel safe
Drugs that change disease progression
Effects
Slow
Disease progression
The decline of memory and thinking
Changes disease progression
Aducanumab
Approved for
Alzheimer's disease
Side effects
Headache
Falls
Lecanemab
Approved for
Alzheimer's diseas
Side effects
Infusion-related reactions