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Capella University

NURS-FPX 4900: Capstone Project for Nursing

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In the research-based scenario, I discussed the condition of A patient with developed Alzheimer’s disease. Mr. Hardy is not living the best of his life because his health condition as well as the unavailability of proper care and treatment. Alzheimer’s puts a bad impact on a patient’s life physically and mentally. It also disturbs the life of people around them psychologically and financially as its treatment costs too much. Due to their special life conditions on daily basis, the healthcare faculty also faces some hardships along the way. Faculty dealing with AD patients and nurses are specially trained on the care schedule of Alzheimer’s patients and how to deal with any psychological effect on their life (Grabher, 2018). Due to AD patients’ unhealthy mental condition, sometimes they have to face stress condition and anxiety attacks and require immediate treatment by a psychologist or a doctor in case they have harmed themselves. Through step-by-step progress, here I will discuss the contribution of technology, digital treatment programs, and coordination between the healthcare system and community for better use of resources.

Impact of HealthCare Technologies on Alzheimer’s Patients

Alzheimer’s patients with already so many challenges memory loss, stress, anxiety, less social interaction, incapability to do daily chores, and financial instability due to expensive treatment, have to go through so much. With the modern era problems and new addition in diseases and virus breakthroughs, life has become more difficult for them. Alzheimer’s patients are a great deal of stress from family member and their caregivers. As an estimated data report, the stress level and anxiety in relative personnel were higher than the usual staff. They also had to go through almost the same kind of anxiety as the patient and it was affecting their own life on a daily basis (Yıldızhan et al., 2018).

The recent COVID situation has risen the health risks for AD patients who need constant care and observation. Proper care is only possible at care centers and nursing homes but was not possible for suggested social distancing during COVID. Hospitals and health centers with an already flowing no. of patients were not safe places for AD patients. COVID with possible vascular damage was more harmful to Alzheimer’s patients as they suffer from stress which also affects their brain during an anxiety attack and difficulty in breathing. They were suggested home-based care plans with the help of technical assistance for their daily checkup routine and in the case of emergency. Mr. Hardy’s medical history also included 6 months of home assistance which was not provided properly and resulted in an increase in anxiety attacks. (Brown et al., 2020). With Alzheimer’s being 6th most dangerous disease affecting the mortality rate in the US, COVID has added in pulling the healthcare system to the limits.