长老隐藏着医生的痴呆症状
Convincing some eldersto see their doctors for any reason can be difficult. Convincing them to give honest answers to the doctor's questions can be even more challenging. This is especially true when the elder gets into uncomfortable territory. Areas where they feel they will be judged.
可能最常用的问题是酒精或药物滥用，但落后不远将是认知问题。已经知道痴呆症作为最令人恐惧的疾病的痴呆症已被唤醒。众所周知，此时痴呆症也没有治愈。此外，甚至有偶尔错误的决定的健康大脑的人也有掩盖的趋势。自从我们的大脑代表我们这么大的身份以来，这是人类不喜欢我们的思想过程。所以，而是像遮住眼睛的孩子们说“你看不到我”，人们常常觉得如果他们没有被诊断出患有痴呆症，那么痴呆症不是他们的问题。
去找医生
说服长老的最成功的方式，看医生往往是建议一般的身体，以便他们可以获得他们的血压处方，或者其他任何其他药物更新。物理可能会好起来的，但是当医生想聊聊一般健康问题时，事情可以获得冒险。
医生询问他们是否按照指示服用他们的药物。当然，答案是“是的”。他们喝了多少酒？答案是“晚餐后偶尔偶尔啤酒或杯酒。”他们注意到他们遇到了平衡支票簿或忘记约会的问题？“不，没有问题。”
Adult children or spouses accompanying their loved ones to these appointments often feel powerless, or at least uncomfortable, if they try to contradict the elder's fuzzy answers.
绕过你所爱的人的掩护
While cognitive abilities are affected by the various types of the disease, dementia does not lower IQ. People with dementia can often put up a very effective front in order to convince the doctor that nothing is wrong.
我建议你尽量安排你的爱e's appointment with a geriatrician, if possible. These specialists on aging are less likely than many time-pressed general physicians to be misled by evasion when looking for cognitive issues in elders. If you can't land an appointment with a geriatrician - or even if you can - one way to inform the physician that there are issues that make you question your parent's cognitive health is to write the doctor a letter before the appointment. A telephone call is good, but you're unlikely to get past a nurse. A good nurse, taking good notes, may be enough. A letter listing explicit incidences that are concerning you may be even better, though. Include the frequency of occurrences of the events and even dates if you've kept track. This approach will arm the physician with the necessary information so that he or she can ask the right questions and even order the correct tests.
通常，测试将以快速的办公室考试轻轻地开始，如迷你精神状态考试（MMSE）或其他几种可以帮助评估认知功能，例如记忆，方向，推理和判断，语言技能和关注的其他之一。
办公室认知检查正在发展，所以医生可以尝试另一种方法。最终，如果需要，医生可以进一步测试或将你所爱的人推荐给专门患有痴呆症的神经病学家。这也可能导致你的争夺，但如果第一个医生处理办公室的光线，也许你的一些老年人的防御将被分解。大多数取决于向老年人传达，有一些认知问题并不意味着生命是无望的，并且应该表现出痴呆症的迹象，有一些药物可以减缓精神衰退的话，如果足够初步开始。在照顾你所爱的人的同时，你不会赢得每一场战斗，但是得到了这个检查是一个很好的开始。
Sources:
Locke，T.（2011年2月8日）痴呆症作为最大的健康恐惧超越癌症。WebMD健康新闻。从...获得http://www.webmd.boots.com/alzheimers/news/20110208/dementia-overtakes-cancer-as-biggest-health-fear
National Institutes of Health. Detecting Dementia with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in Highly Educated Individuals. Retrieved fromhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc2587038/
