Implications or Alzheimer’s Disease
Nursing
Since there is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, the future of the nursing care for the people that have the identified disorder concerns mostly maintaining the patient’s quality of life. Therefore, designing the tools for improving the patient’s cognition functions, as well as fostering a safer environment for the target members of the population, should be viewed as the further course of nursing.
Pastoral Care
At present, there is a definite propensity in pastoral care to believe that memory loss and the deterioration of the cognitive abilities are not to be viewed as a sign of personal degradation. Thus, caregivers should focus on reconstructing the essential details of the patient’s life. Active use of personal pronouns, the emphasis on the unique characteristics of the patient, etc., will help retain the latter’ memory and improve the communication between the patients and their family members (Varcarolis & Halter, 2010a).
Social Services
The social services seem to be geared toward providing patients with Alzheimer’s disease with an opportunity to learn more about their condition and explore the treatment options that they have. Furthermore, social services are geared toward offering the family members the essential information about tending to the needs of people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Home Health Care
There is positive evidence that home care has a better effect on patients with Alzheimer’s than hospital care. Therefore, home care opportunities are becoming increasingly more numerous. New options for home health care have emerged, the current list containing companion, personal care, homemaker, and skilled care services (Ruz, 2016).
Community
The increase in the number of chances that people with Alzheimer’s have to integrate back into society successfully has had an effect on their relationships with the community. Among the essential effects, the communication process has become simpler and more efficient.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
By definition, the Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is rather difficult to address. Because of the comorbid disorders, as well as the fact that the patient is typically incapable of experiencing remorse (Varcarolis & Halter, 2010c), the treatment process may be hampered. In a case in point, the situation is aggravated by the fact that the patient has a drug problem. Therefore, using the traditional persuasion tactic in order to make the patient change his behavioral patterns does not seem like a sensible step to make.
Instead, a nurse must focus on psychotherapy. Thus, the motives for the patient to beg for money can be identified. The application of medical treatment is not quite reasonable at this point since there are no specific drugs for APD. Instead, a therapist may consider prescribing medicine for preventing the development of comorbid conditions, such as anxiety disorder or depression (Varcarolis & Halter, 2010b). For example, if the psychotherapy sessions show that the patient asks for money because of his fear for his physical, emotional, or economic wellbeing, active therapy sessions will have to be provided to address the fear issue.
Cognitive therapy can be used as the foundation for reconstructing the patent’s identity. Aimed at improving his intellectual and social skills, the treatment is bound to have a positive effect on him. The goal of the therapy, in this case, is to show the patient that his current behavioral patterns are the primary causes of his problems. Thus, the understanding of the necessity to alter the current habits will appear. As a result, the man will be able to accept the need to adopt new and more socially appropriate behavioral strategies.
References
Ruz, M. A. (2016). Patient’s caregiver satisfaction with home health care services provided by King Fahad Specialist Hospital – Dammam. Journal of American Science, 12(6), 8-14.
Varcarolis, E. M., & Halter, M. J. (2010a). Chapter 15. Schizophrenia. In Foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing (6th ed.) (pp. 306-343). St. Louis, MO: Saunders.
Varcarolis, E. M., & Halter, M. J. (2010b). Chapter 15. Schizophrenia. In Foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing (6th ed.) (pp. 344-368). St. Louis, MO: Saunders.
Varcarolis, E. M., & Halter, M. J. (2010c). Chapter 29. Psychological needs of the older adult. In Foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing (6th ed.) (pp. 653-676). St. Louis, MO: Saunders.