PSYCHOLOGY

Illness Experience and Disruption of Self and Identity

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Illness Experience and Disruption of Self and Identity

Introduction

The identity is challenged in the unique experience of Alzheimer's disease, since a person can get upset by the lessening of the grip on reality. Since it involves a dependency on actual and future, Alzheimer's disease questions the possibility of a survival identity in the gradual loss of autonomy. Can anyone think to maintain or of even a change of identity, in the case of the experience of Alzheimer's disease? This commentary can be contemplated through coaching, and especially by management in a specialized care unit (Crisp & Swanson, 2000, pp. 56).

The environment of the person

In the whole book Rethinking Alzheimer's disease-Ethics, edited by Emmanuel Hirsch and Catherine Ollivet, reference is made ??to a study that an enriched environment would have positive consequences and decrease significantly the deposits of amyloid peptides, that is to say, senile plaques described by Alois Alzheimer. In addition, it stimulates the activation of genes involved in the process of learning, memory and promotes neuronal growth. If, on the one hand, the familiar environment of the person with Alzheimer's disease is favorable for charge of benchmarks and if the other an enriched environment can delay the effects of the disease, it is necessary to assume that enrichment of the familiar environment of the person is ideal for well-being and slowing disease progression (Creamer, 2008, pp. 147).

The entry of a person in an institution therefore seems ambivalent. To what extent is it beneficial to the person as it upsets your bearings? Is the identity of the person respected when it is removed from its familiar surroundings and usual? Is it ethically correct that a person can present access to care in an institution by the fact of its financial strength? Do we consider a person's identity and its dignity or its financial resources?

The person with Alzheimer's disease requires benchmarks, familiar places; stability to avoid certain situations and anxiety does not accelerate disease progression. However, the places that are most familiar such as landmarks remain responsible for the place of life and housing of the person. The specialized Alzheimer's care unit is made ??outside of an area of traditional care because it implies to integrate the familiar. Discretion should be exercised in the management, so that it remains a crutch and allows residents to practice as much as possible their sense of initiative and self-esteem remains the most preserved in this dependence. Such a structure raises the question of freedom, dependence associated with the disease involving a "confinement". The person becomes a prisoner of addiction that is growing and it occurs when there is a gradual negation of all freedom. With the evolution of the disease, the person, living in silence, no longer hears his will and thus becomes totally dependent and is condemned to depend on attention he will receive or not (Clark, 2008, pp. 99).

Moreover, the environment seems even more important that the person is no longer or will no ...