Nursing Assessment for Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's Disease


Nursing Assessment for Alzheimer's Disease
  1. Activity / rest
    Signs: anxiety, helplessness, impaired motor skills
    Symptoms: feeling melting
  2. Circulation
    Symptoms: History of cerebral vascular disease / systemic, hypertension, embolic episodes
  3. Ego integrity
    Signs: hide incompetence, sit and watch the other, the first activity may accumulate objects are not moving and emotionally stable
    Symptoms: suspicious or afraid of the situation / person fantasies, misperceptions of the environment, loss of multiple.
  4. Elimination
    Signs: Incontinence of urine / feaces
    Symptoms: The urge to urinate
  5. Food / fluid
    Signs: loss of ability to chew, avoiding / refusing to eat, and looked increasingly thin.
    Symptoms: Historical episodes of hypoglycemia, changes in taste, appetite, weight loss.
  6. Hygiene
    Signs: a lack of personal habits, forget to go to the bathroom and less interested in eating time
    Symptoms: Need help dependent others
  7. Neuro Sensory
    Symptoms: Improvement of existing symptoms, especially cognitive changes, loss of sensation propriosepsi and a history of cerebral vascular disease / systemic as well as seizure activity.
  8. Comfort
    Signs: a sense of hostility / attack others
    Symptoms: A history of serious head trauma, accident trauma
  9. Social Integrity
    Signs: Loss of social control, inappropriate behavior
    Symptoms: Feeling lost power.