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Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia
Choices are often difficult to make by patients with Alzheimer Dementia. They often become acutely confused when faced with too many options because they are not able to retain in their working memory enough information about the various individual choices available. In this case study, we describe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5588787/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28904992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721417720585 |
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author | Hamdy, R. C. Lewis, J. V. Kinser, A. Depelteau, A. Copeland, R. Kendall-Wilson, T. Whalen, K. |
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description | Choices are often difficult to make by patients with Alzheimer Dementia. They often become acutely confused when faced with too many options because they are not able to retain in their working memory enough information about the various individual choices available. In this case study, we describe how an essentially simple benign task (choosing a dress to wear) can rapidly escalate and result in a catastrophic outcome. We examine what went wrong in the patient/caregiver interaction and how that potentially catastrophic situation could have been avoided or defused. |
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spelling | pubmed-55887872017-09-13 Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia Hamdy, R. C. Lewis, J. V. Kinser, A. Depelteau, A. Copeland, R. Kendall-Wilson, T. Whalen, K. Gerontol Geriatr Med Teaching Case Studies: Managing Aberrant Behavior In Patients With Dementia Choices are often difficult to make by patients with Alzheimer Dementia. They often become acutely confused when faced with too many options because they are not able to retain in their working memory enough information about the various individual choices available. In this case study, we describe how an essentially simple benign task (choosing a dress to wear) can rapidly escalate and result in a catastrophic outcome. We examine what went wrong in the patient/caregiver interaction and how that potentially catastrophic situation could have been avoided or defused. SAGE Publications 2017-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5588787/ /pubmed/28904992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721417720585 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Teaching Case Studies: Managing Aberrant Behavior In Patients With Dementia Hamdy, R. C. Lewis, J. V. Kinser, A. Depelteau, A. Copeland, R. Kendall-Wilson, T. Whalen, K. Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia |
title | Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia |
title_full | Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia |
title_fullStr | Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia |
title_full_unstemmed | Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia |
title_short | Too Many Choices Confuse Patients With Dementia |
title_sort | too many choices confuse patients with dementia |
topic | Teaching Case Studies: Managing Aberrant Behavior In Patients With Dementia |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5588787/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28904992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721417720585 |
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