Alzheimers Disease?

Question

How does it affect you socially?

What type of role does it play on your social life and socoiologically?

Answer 1

You'd have to get the Ans to this either from the Dr's and caretakers' guesses or the patient h/herself. For me, I was hospitalized for 12 days for respiratory distress and placed on high doses of Prednisone (steroids) and oxygen and other things. I became high as a kite (younger people have other descriptive language); happy; loved meeting people and collected the names of 60 of the hospital workers and the countries they were from. But then as the dose continued after I was released, I lost my memory; couldn't figure out what people were saying to me and got totally lost just trying to walk around the block!! A wonderful woman took me in for tea and then drove me around the neighborhood until I recognized my daughter's house with whom I was staying. Having studied Child Development, I believe I was functioning on a Sensori-Motor Stage of Piaget's Cognitive Functioning--much as a 1-2 yr-old. I didn't have any self-assertive part at all--not the rebellious stage. Luckily, my respiratory system improved enough to take me off the Prenisone and the Protonix and most of my memory returned. I still have no sense of direction, however, and have to function with a map when I'm off the beaten path!! Have no idea if this is similar with Alzheimers, but seems to have been similar.