Nursing Assessment for Alzheimer's Disease
- Activity / rest
Signs: anxiety, helplessness, impaired motor skills
Symptoms: feeling melting - Circulation
Symptoms: History of cerebral vascular disease / systemic, hypertension, embolic episodes - 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. - Elimination
Signs: Incontinence of urine / feaces
Symptoms: The urge to urinate - 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. - Hygiene
Signs: a lack of personal habits, forget to go to the bathroom and less interested in eating time
Symptoms: Need help dependent others - 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. - Comfort
Signs: a sense of hostility / attack others
Symptoms: A history of serious head trauma, accident trauma - Social Integrity
Signs: Loss of social control, inappropriate behavior
Symptoms: Feeling lost power.