This section utilizes a case study to analyze and discuss the literature findings. It begins with an introduction of Agnes’ case study, an AD patient and continues on with how it relates to biopsychosocial factors.
The Narrative of Agnes
Agnes’s story of her development and journey with AD is essential to this research and hypotheses. Levine and Levine (2013) article of Agnes shows a history of Agnes’s life. Agnes was active in her late seventies and took good care of herself. She became an engineer. She often conversed with her lifelong friends and other women from her aquatics class. Yet, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at 82-years-old. Thus far, she was exercising, social, had an active mind. So, how did she become at risk for AD. The answer lied in her past. Agnes was born into an upper-middle class family. Agnes had changed homes four times from the age of six to sixteen. The number of moves was due to World War II and civil wars in Europe. At this time, Agnes’s parents had separated for work purposes and she lost her relationship with her father. Agnes and her mother moved to Russia to live with her grandmother. She did not receive any love or …show more content…
She transferred herself from vocational school to a gymnasium to prepare her for university education. Although, her mother was unsupportive of her educational goals, Agnes was determined. Agnes’s father would write to her sometimes and send her crossword puzzles to complete. She missed her father very much. Since, Agnes did not receive love and affection from her mother; she sought nurturance from the changing staff, housemaids, cooks, including her school friend’s mothers. When she was 10-years-old, she saw the Germans invade Russia and round the Jews. Her father had made arrangements for her family to flee for safety at the embassy. From the embassy windows she witnessed violence and brutal murders committed towards her neighbours and
The Narrative of Agnes
Agnes’s story of her development and journey with AD is essential to this research and hypotheses. Levine and Levine (2013) article of Agnes shows a history of Agnes’s life. Agnes was active in her late seventies and took good care of herself. She became an engineer. She often conversed with her lifelong friends and other women from her aquatics class. Yet, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at 82-years-old. Thus far, she was exercising, social, had an active mind. So, how did she become at risk for AD. The answer lied in her past. Agnes was born into an upper-middle class family. Agnes had changed homes four times from the age of six to sixteen. The number of moves was due to World War II and civil wars in Europe. At this time, Agnes’s parents had separated for work purposes and she lost her relationship with her father. Agnes and her mother moved to Russia to live with her grandmother. She did not receive any love or …show more content…
She transferred herself from vocational school to a gymnasium to prepare her for university education. Although, her mother was unsupportive of her educational goals, Agnes was determined. Agnes’s father would write to her sometimes and send her crossword puzzles to complete. She missed her father very much. Since, Agnes did not receive love and affection from her mother; she sought nurturance from the changing staff, housemaids, cooks, including her school friend’s mothers. When she was 10-years-old, she saw the Germans invade Russia and round the Jews. Her father had made arrangements for her family to flee for safety at the embassy. From the embassy windows she witnessed violence and brutal murders committed towards her neighbours and