FAST Fuctional Assessment Staging of Alzheimer's

#comment-form According to FAST ( The Functional Assessment Staging of Alzheimer's ).
The FAST system has been studied extensively and proven ( ?? ) to be reliable and valid for staging dementia in Alzheimer’s disease. According to ( NHPCO ) one of the major advantages of this system is that it spans and describes the entire course of normal aging and progressive AD until the final stages of the disease process. = The 7 stages of FAST . The FAST scale has seven stages:1. Normal adult with no cognitive decline. 2. Normal older adult with very mild memory loss (forgetting location of objects and word finding difficulties). 3. Early dementia. Memory loss becomes apparent to co-workers and family. The patient may be unable to remember names of persons just introduced to them and may have difficulty in traveling to new locations with decreased organizational capacity. 4. Mild dementia. Persons at this stage may have difficulty with finances, counting money, planning dinner for guests, difficulty marketing. Memory loss increases. The person’s knowledge of current and recent events decreases. 5. Moderate dementia. At this stage the person needs more help to survive. They do not need assistance with toileting or eating but do need help choosing clothing. The person displays increased difficulty with serial subtraction. The patient may not know the date and year or where they live but do know who they are and the names of their family and friends. 6. Moderately severe dementia. The person may begin to forget the names of family members or friends. The person requires more assistance with activities of daily living, such as bathing, toileting, and eating. Patients in this stage may develop delusions, hallucinations, or obsessions. Patients show increased anxiety and may become violent. The person in this stage begins to sleep during the day and stay awake at night. 7. Severe dementia. In this stage, all speech is lost. Patients lose urinary and bowel control. They lose the ability to walk without personal assistance and the ability to sit up without assistance is lost. You may see individuals at this stage in nursing homes that will fall over if there are no lateral arm rests on the chair. Most will loose the ability to smile and will become bedridden and die of sepsis or pneumonia.
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Understanding of origin of dis-eases of the body /mind are absolutely imperative in order to not fall into the Alzheimer's misdiagnosis trap. Alzheimer's decline can be avoided by balancing the " emotional components " relevant to each individual case " early on. Self Awareness and conscious healing are key to early on Alzheimer's prevention . Acupuncture recognises and treats early on emotional disturbances affecting Yin / Yang Organ and whole body systems / mind body and spirit health. Dis-eases are not cookie cutter compliant. Recognise some of these truths at:

http://www.e3healthdesign.com/alzheimersassessment.htm

Specifically point # 6. this article: " Patients show increased anxiety and may become violent. The person in this stage begins to sleep during the day and stay awake at night."
This Points to a liver/ gallbladder disturbance = depression ; specific sign being "sleeps during day awake at night. "

Point # 4. this article: "Persons at this stage may have difficulty with finances, counting money, planning dinner for guests."
This points specifically but not limited to " liver gallbladder " Yin/ Yang imbalance one being " the planner and the other being the decision maker. "

Forgetting names points specifically to heart/ pericardium ( Heart Protector ) affecting short term memory and can be viewed as a self regulatory system set up by the " wisdom of the body / mind . On an individual basis from an intuitive perspective " I can't cope with all these people, I have been hurt enough...... "

Much of the facts / information is proven hundreds of years ago , available to all through eastern / traditional Chinese medicine where illness diagnosis and treatment is a whole being assessment .

The most user friendly introduction to "Understanding Chinese Medicine" is book tittle "THE WEB THAT HAS NO WEAVER" by Ted J Kaptchuk, O.M. D.



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