Psychological and behavioral symptoms of Alzheimers disease patients with mental nursing.doc

Psychological and behavioral symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease patients with mental nursing Of: Kung Li Shan Jing Jing Li Dezhen Dementia is the health of the elderly against one of the most common syndrome in which Alzheimer’s disease (also known as Alzheimer’s disease Alzhemier’s Disease, referred to as AD) accounts for about 10% of the total number of dementia [1]. It is reported that psychological and behavioral symptoms the proportion of AD patients in up to 70% -90%, how to improve the psychological and behavioral symptoms of AD patients, is the clinical problem to be solved. our department to have psychological and behavioral symptoms in patients with routine nursing care + mental model, to effectively improve the AD patients psychological and behavioral symptoms, are summarized below. 1 Clinical data Our hospital from April 2008 to June 2010 accompanied by psychological and behavioral symptoms of AD 48 cases of hospitalized patients, 30 males and 18 females, aged 61-93 years, mean 78.8 years old. All patients were assessed by the amount of clinical dementia Table (clinical dementia rating, CDR) assessment, mild dementia (not affecting the daily life) in 18 cases, moderate dementia (with a little care and attention) in 22 cases, severe dementia (subject to regular monitoring and care) in 8 cases. Psychological and behavioral symptoms of AD patients basically can be summarized as the following: delusions, hallucinations, depression, identity disorder, anxiety and agitation. When the same with two or more symptoms, the most prominent symptoms in patients with the standard of psychological and behavioral symptoms in patients with the distribution shown in Table 1: Table 1 Distribution of patients with psychological and behavioral symptoms (cases) Gender identity disorder paranoid hallucinations depression anxiety agitation M 539 274 Female 218,151 Total 7 (14.58%) 4 (8.33%) 17 (35.42%) 3 (6.25%) 12 (25.0%) 5 (10.42%)