Awareness for People With Alzheimer's Disease: Profiles and Weekly Trajectories.

To understand awareness and fluctuations of awareness in Alzheimer's disease (AD), it is fruitful to consider the objects of awareness, e.g., cognitive functioning or recognition of the disease, as well as the mechanisms and modes of expression underlying awareness.

"What" and "How": A New Perspective for Understanding Unawareness in Alzheimer's Disease Through a Combination of Two Perspectives.

Objectives: Assessments of unawareness in Alzheimer's disease mainly focus on the objects (the "what") of unawareness. A recent person-centered approach proposes to also assess the processes (the "how"). The present study combines 2 approaches to understand this heterogeneity in assessments of unawareness.

Modelling Awareness in Alzheimer's Disease.

This study aimed to provide a model of awareness in Alzheimer's disease using the stage of the disease as a risk factor. Awareness was assessed using three methods (patient-caregiver discrepancy, prediction-performance discrepancy, clinical rating). Twenty-five healthy control subjects and sixty-one patients participated, with measures of cognition, apathy, depression, and awareness.

Awareness of Self and Disease Assessment: Development and Validation of a Subjective Measure in People with Alzheimer's Disease.

Background: People with Alzheimer's disease (PwAD) remain able to speak coherently about their daily life for a long time, and their level of awareness could be determined through their discourse. In a grounded-theory approach, awareness of self and awareness of disease are intertwined and can be observed through three domains: mechanisms, objects and modes of expression.

Objective: Based on preliminary results, in this article, we present the ASDA (Awareness of Self and Disease Assessment), a new subjective measurement tool for awareness in PwAD.