Case Study Of Alzheimer's Case Study

The theme of the book is related to the early onset Alzheimer’s disease and how the main character, Alice Howland’s quality of life or in other words her lifestyle is affected due to the disease she is diagnosed with (Genova, 2009). The novel sheds light on the lives of those

Alice’s story about her’s and her family’s struggle reaches to me because the disease takes away someone you love slowly. This book shows Alice losing parts of herself gradually until she is unrecognizable. However, Alice is still a person and should still be treated as one. The message this book sends across to its audience that, although taken by Alzheimer’s, Alice has emotions too and that part is not taken away from her.

Alzheimer's disease is a familiar sight to me. I had a sad experience during my work as a nurse in my country Colombia and Spain with Alzheimer disease patients. Day by day I came to know each patient’s story because every day they were living the moment without remember the last minute. This is also what happened to Lisa Genova’s novel Still Alice. The protagonists is a 50 year old woman, a very well organized, efficient, highly-educated, and smart Harvard professor, wife of a successful man, and the mother of three grown children, who has diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. People have learned about the progression of Alice’s disease through her reactions, so feeling what she feels- a

Alzheimer is like mental cancer. It eats away inside you stealthily, slowly destroying you before anyone knows it is even there. It oozes in like a septic tide, consuming thoughts, memory, and personality like real cancer takes your bodily organs. In the early stages it is hard to tell where personal aberrations end, and Alzheimer’s begins, but in the end one looks for anything untouched by the illness. One of the frightening things about Alzheimer’s is how the first signs of the disease make their appearance in the most benign and normal events. Things we might laugh at as silly mistakes are really signs of something much worse than we imagine. When Alzheimer’s occurs where there is no family history, people look back at events that were warning signs, and shake their heads, thinking, “If only we had known what that meant.” In families where Alzheimer’s has left a mark down through the generations there can develop an almost mania of examining family and self as every little mistake and personality quirk is put to the question of “Is that Alzheimer’s?” What are natural human failures, and what are grim portents of a terrible future fast approaching? The question becomes fraught with weight. For family, the sentence of disease is a sentence to watching as someone you love is lost to grinding humiliation and helplessness. For the victim, it is going mad, and knowing it. It is pain—a mental and emotional pain like any physical torment as what you have is torn from you, one

I chose to read Still Alice by Lisa Genova for this critical book review. I chose this book because I have a strong interest in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. I also work with clients who are living with dementia and I can see how much of an impact that has on both my clients and their families. We hear stories about Alzheimer’s disease from doctors or caregivers all the time, but it is so rare to get to learn about the disease straight from the source, or straight from the person actually living through the progression of the disease.

Alice is a very ambitious and intelligent linguistics professor at Columbia University. In fact, she starts to notice the she cannot recollect daily classroom activities, words and at times, she even becomes unable to remember where she is on her daily runs. Therefore, she starts the process of determining her diagnosis by seeing a neurologist for answers as to why these things are occurring. First a few short tests are performed, then the neurologist request Alice to have a PET scan of her brain. Thus, once performed, he confirms his suspicion of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Subsequently, after further family history inquiries, he confirms additionally, that she also has a very rare form of Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD).

“Still Alice” is about a well-respected psychologist named Alice Howland diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is described as a progressive, incurable disease that destroys memory and important mental functions. Alice displayed many signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, such as mental decline, difficulty thinking and understanding, disorientation, poor concentrating, agitation, forgetfulness, self-care deficits, personality changes, getting lost and wandering, and restlessness. Alice is smart and successful, but everything changes for the worse when she gets diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

“Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a slowly progressive disease of the brain that is characterized by impairment of memory and eventually by disturbances in reasoning, planning, language, and perception.” (Howard Crystal) In Health 1000 we were asked to read the book Still Alice. I have never dealt with or have done any study on Alzheimer’s disease before reading this book. After finishing this book it has really opened my eyes to how bad of a disease and how it cripples the mind. I never imagined the effect of this disease on a patient and the patient family. This book is about a upper middle aged lady named Alice who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and how she and her family learn how to deal with disease. One of the things this book

Tara’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Tara’s mother slowly started forgetting little things and is progressively

With more than 500 million Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the quality of their life with the disease is predictable. There are different stages of the disease that range from mild, moderate, and severe. A person with the mild form of the disease could experience finding the right word during conversations difficult, forgetting the names of new acquaintances, and difficulty planning and organizing. A severe form would cause the patient to be confused and unaware of their environment and surroundings. They would need assistance on activities of daily living, have trouble recognizing common faces, struggle to remember personal details, as well as wandering. These severe cases lead to losing the ability to communicate and in the end death. Mrs. F knew the fate of her declining health through this disease. She would progressively become incapable to control her own actions and the disease will eventually lead to death.

Still Alice by Lisa Genova is about a woman named Alice in her 50’s who develops early onset Alzheimer’s. The diagnosis shocks her and her whole family as she is incredibly intelligent and so young. The novel is about the struggles of her adjusting to the new ways her mind is working and her family trying to figure out how to interact with their changing wife/mother. It shows one woman’s progression of the disease and the way it affects how she feels, thinks, acts, and generally changes life as she knows it.

She is a fifty-year-old well-known linguistics professor at Columbia University that has spent most of her life studying, researching, and expanding her career. She is married to another professor from Columbia University and together they have three children. Her son is in medical school, her older daughter is a lawyer, and her youngest daughter is an inspiring actress that has not found much luck in roles. The movie starts with Alice going to lecture at UCLA about her new research in young children she has been working on. During her speech that I am sure she has done and practiced several times before, she lost her next words mid sentence and jokingly made a comment about that she should not have had a glass of champagne beforehand. This was the first sign the viewer saw Alice forget something familiar she knows by heart, such as her research, her speech, her career. I also like how the director incorporated a joke to cover up Alice’s loss of

In Alice’s case, she started showing symptoms around age 50 but nobody recognized them as Alzheimer’s symptoms. I can relate to Alice and her family’s struggles with facing Alzheimer’s disease because my family too has a history of Alzheimer’s

After gaining a PhD in Neuroscience at Harvard University, Lisa Genova wrote numerous  novels themed around her speciality of mental health. Her best-selling novel, 'Still Alice’, is written from the perspective of Alice, a successful 50 year old woman with the seemingly ‘perfect life’.  However, the struggle of accepting a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, whilst fearing the stigmatic effect of its label, causes Alice to question her identity and purpose in life. The title of the book graphically illustrates how, despite being the same person, the identity of someone with Alzheimer’s Disease can be forgotten.

As the film unfolded, Alice became open with her family regarding her recent diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, fears and struggles. John who was physician, Anna who was a lawyer, Tom who was a medical student and Lydia an aspiring