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Coping with Challenging Behaviors

July 2nd, 2008 Mary Baum No comments

As Alzheimer’s disease progresses and different areas of the brain are affected, an individual can exhibit new and often challenging behaviors. The disease causes cell death and diffuse tissue changes, so control of certain functions, such as perception, begin to change. Information that was once readily perceived, interpreted, understood and acted upon now becomes unreliable. Read more…