Question

W7: Reflection
Deadline
Due by the end of Week 7 at 11:59pm, ET.
Directions
Please type your responses in a Word document and submit here in Blackboard.
In approximately 100-150 words, please reflect upon all the medications we covered this week and how they relate to the
gastrointestinal and psychiatric systems. In your own words, please answer the following questions. What are some examples of
medications that people with Alzheimer's use to help their symptoms? What is the cause of Alzheimer's? Why is it important to
have a working understanding of these medications?
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Answer 1

not sure what medications you learned this week. but, psychiatric medications are not used with patients with dementia because it advances their deterioration.
alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia in which plaques and tangles develop in the patient’s brain, which deteriorates the brain. it is only definitively diagnosable during autopsy.
it is important to have an understanding of medications to know what actually helps patients with alzheimer’s, and what will not further progress the disease.