The Spec Ops Blog: The special challenges of searching for missing alzheimer's subjects

Sunday, December 29, 2013

The special challenges of searching for missing alzheimer's subjects

Kimberly R. Kelly Falconer, Founder and Executive Director of Project Far From Home, has put together a great review of some of the special challenges searchers will face when looking for missing alzheimer's subjects.

Entitled Missing at Risk – Understanding and Managing the Search for the Missing Alzheimer’s Subject (Copyright © 2008 by Project Far From Home), her write-up explains the following topics:

What is Alzheimer’s disease?
How Is AD Diagnosed?
Progression of the Disease
Agnosia
Agnosia and Driving
Agnosia and Additional Concerns
Aphasia
Apraxia
Cognitive Mapping
Sundowning
Dysphagia
Wandering
Family Reporting Incidents of Past Wandering
Lost in the Labyrinth
Catastrophic Reaction
Violence
Incontinence
A Death March

Download your copy of this informative, 18-page document here.

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