Alzheimer's disease - the role of nurses in patient care

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Polanska Patrycja, Galka Alexandra, Gil Roksana, Mika Katarzyna, Poleska Ewa, Sarzynska Kathie, Spodzieja Justyna, Mess Eleonora . Alzheimer's disease - the role of nurses in patient care . Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(6):187-202. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3241894 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/7009 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 05.05.2019. Revised: 25.05.2019. Accepted: 09.06.2019. Alzheimer's disease - the role of nurses in patient care Patrycja Polanska 1 , Alexandra Galka 1 , Roksana Gil 1 , Katarzyna Mika 1 , Ewa Poleska 1 , Kathie Sarzynska 1 , Justyna Spodzieja 1 , Eleonora Mess 2 1 A group of nursing students under the supervision of Dr. Eleonora Mess at the Medical University of Wroclaw 2 Department of Oncology and Palliative Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Wroclaw mailing address: eleonora.mess@umed.wroc.pl SUMMARY Alzheimer's disease is the most common degenerative disorder of the brain resulting in dementia. It occurs most frequently among the elderly. This article presents the causes, effects and manner of developing the disease. Described above are the most important aspects of patient care. Particular attention was paid to the adaptation of housing, communication, rehabilitation, diet, forms of support for the patient and caregivers. Due to the nature of care they were also presented specific problems in health and the role of nurses has been determined. Key words: Alzheimer's disease, AD, dementia, problems, care.