Exploratory study of French healthcare workers' experiences of anosognosia in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.

Background: Anosognosia or lack of insight is a common feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and associated disorders. It is an impairment in the ability to recognize the disease and related symptoms. Anosognosia is associated among patients with poor compensatory strategies, behavioral disorders, apathy and caregiver burden.

[Recognition of caregivers by people with severe neurocognitive disorders].

The recognition of caregivers working with elderly people with neuro-evolutionary diseases is a fact. The caregivers interviewed for this study reported that they felt recognized and identified by these elderly people, who were considered to be prosopagnosic. The caregivers were even able to show that this recognition was possible, even during changes in appearance.

[Conscience des déficits dans le cadre de la maladie d'Alzheimer : représentations et vécu des professionnels soignants].

La qualité des soins apportés aux personnes vivant avec la maladie d'Alzheimer (MA) dépend en partie de la capacité des professionnels à déterminer le degré de conscience de la maladie chez les patients. La présente recherche s'est intéressée aux représentations des soignants concernant la conscience des troubles chez les résidents d'établissements de soins de longue durée présentant un diagnostic de MA. Le pouvoir prédicteur de l'anosognosie sur le fardeau soignant a également été examiné.

[Unawareness of deficits in dementia and its impact on the caregiver-patient relationship: a literature review].

To date, few studies have focused on the impact of anosognosia on patients' and caregivers' daily lives. However, in more general studies, anosognosia has been linked to increased burden of family caregivers, refusals to receive care, and increased caregivers' psycho-behavioral disorders. However, these studies did not specify the nature of the impact of anosognosia on these manifestations, often attributed to cognitive impairment which is more representative of the disease.

[Systemic reading, another way of thinking to apprehend situations of elderly abuse].

In 2007, a national call number was created to receive reports of ill-treatment for aged or handicapped subjects, and departmental platforms of phone-tapping were organized. Professionals of listening receive the calls for assistance or confidences of distresses related to ill treatments. They should initiate a relationship and assess the danger of the condition, therefore, in a systemic paradigm, performing a double task.