Alzheimer's patient
Dementia-affected individual
A person with Alzheimer's disease, the progressive neurological condition that destroys memory and cognitive function.
The term appears frequently in medical contexts and caregiving discussions: My mother became an Alzheimer's patient at sixty-two.
As the disease advances, Alzheimer's patients typically require increasing levels of care.
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- memory careSupport for cognitive decline
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- forgetfulFailing to retain information
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
wandering · getting lost · elderly · nursing home · loved one · diagnosis · decline · sundowning · lucid · recognition · familiar face · family · holding hands · medication · cognitive · brain · plaques · forgetting
- disabled peoplewheelchair user, amputee, paraplegic, quadriplegic, blind person
- therapy patientsinpatient, outpatient
Alzheimer's patientcaregiver
One providing daily assistance
neurologist · attending physician · healthcare provider · home health aide
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