Frank is a 72-year-old retired accountant. An accomplished musician and composer, Mr. Brown also worked as an organist in various churches during all of his adult life. Over the past several years, Mr. Brown has had increasing difficulty with his memory, finding that he is now unable to play familiar pieces of music that he had memorized years before. His increasing difficulty with memory and with cognitive ability has recently forced him to retire from his organist positions. Mr. Brown, accompanied by his wife, is seen at the medical clinic today. The Browns are informed that Frank is exhibiting symptoms of early Alzheimer’s disease.
Nurse should tell him that Alzheimers disease is not curable.but it can be treated with specific medication like donepizil.this would help to increase his life span.
Advise him to take the medication half an hour before bed time.it can be taken with out food or with food but at late evening.one dose in a day is only allowed.ask his wife to watch forany side effect or complication of donepizil.tell them to follow doctors order correctly and do the follow up vist check the effectiveness of medication.
Nurse should assess the weight of the patient as memantine can increase the weight of the patient.check the heart beat to find out bradycardia or tachcardia.check any vision problems ,dizziness or headache.if these are present which means patient has adverse effect of memantine.
While checking patients memory we can find out medicine is working or not in his body.
Frank is a 72-year-old retired accountant. An accomplished musician and composer, Mr. Brown also worked as...
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