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For this posting, I would like you to check out the following site: http://www.hbo.com/alzheimers/index.html. Go ahead and check out the information and the videos provided. If you cannot view videos from that site, go to https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hbo+alzheimer%27s+project+memory+loss+tapes (Links to an external site.). Watch that video and anything down the right-hand side of the page that might be of interest to you.
As you are considering the information on the site, please notice and then comment in your posting on the symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease that you notice in both the patients themselves as well as their caregivers and family members. Then, take your thoughts one step further and consider the treatments (loosely defined so that you can discuss medications and societal services) that are currently available for these folks. What are the limits of these treatments? What biases/prejudices may be active in the implementation of these treatments (or just how older folks are treated in our society)? Finally, how would you want things to be for yourself when you are older and maybe facing typical aging issues and/or more significant symptoms of dementia?
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