The first part has been changed. It was originally an animation generated by AI, telling the daily life of an old woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Now, users experience the daily life of Alzheimer’s disease from a first-person perspective. On the big black screen (See picture below), some sentences about the daily life of Alzheimer’s patients floated from all directions (such as: Mom, do you close the door? You don’t recognize me? Dad, where did you put your hat? etc.) . All these words fill the screen and are accompanied by voices speaking in the ears, making the experiencer feel helpless and helpless when suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
Then I did some literature reading and online video explanations about Alzheimer’s disease this week. I wanted to understand the patient’s daily status to complete the first part of the content.
1.The classic clinical features of Alzheimer’s disease are an amnesic type of memory impairment,8,9 deterioration of language,10 and visuospatial deficits.11,12 Motor and sensory abnormalities, gait disturbances, and seizures are uncommon until the late phases of the disease.6 (Cummings,2004)
2.We found that DAT patients produced significantly more turns and topic shifts but produced fewer total words, words per turn, unique words, narratives, direct quotes, and figures of speech than did their healthy spouses. Examination of DAT speech samples showed that they were characterized both by a lack of propositional content and illocutionary force, illustrating deterioration in communicative competence. (Blonder et al, 1994)
3.Previous research by Boss (1977) indicates that a family may exclude a member in order to reduce the boundary ambiguity.
4.In the case of an ambiguous loss such as that found in Alzheimer’s disease, the family’s task is to clarify the family boundary by redefining family tasks and roles (Boss, 1977).
Reference list:
1.Cummings, J. L. (2004). Alzheimer’s disease. New England journal of medicine, 351(1), 56-67.
2.Blonder, L. X., Kort, E. D., & Schmitt, F. A. (1994). Conversational discourse in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 4(1), 50-71.
3.Boss, P., (1987). Family stress: Perception and context (pp. 695–723). In N. Sussman & S. Steinmetz (eds.), Handbook on marriage and the family. New York : Plenum Press.
I searched a lot of videos on the Internet to learn more about the daily lives of patients and their families.
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