What were you hoping to achieve with the decisions you recommended for the patient case study you were assigned? Support your response with evidence and references from outside resources. Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with each of the decisions and the results of the decision in the exercise. Describe whether they were different. Be specific and provide examples.

What were you hoping to achieve with the decisions you recommended for the patient case study you were assigned? Support your response with evidence and references from outside resources. Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with each of the decisions and the results of the decision in the exercise. Describe whether they were different. Be specific and provide examples.

Patients with AD might experience substantial alterations in personality, sleep, and behavior (Alzheimer's Association, 2017). For instance, in the case media provided, Mr. Akkad's personality begun to change a few years ago, and he started to lose interest in religious activities with family and to become more “critical” of everyone. Again, all the things Mr. Akkad used to take seriously became a source of “amusement” and “ridicule.” Most importantly, the patient has been forgetting things and has difficulties in “finding the right words” in a conversation because he will shift to an entirely different conversation line indicating that the disease was already affecting his personality and mental functions. However, medications such as antipsychotic agents, benzodiazepines, and antidepressants are often utilized to treat the non-cognitive symptoms of AD (Alzheimer's Association, 2017)