Appointment setting impact your care or treatment plan

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1. Describe how the current setting in which the patient lives and the appointment setting impact your care or treatment plan?

2. Discuss the process of diagnostic differentiation (be specific about what your assessment would include about the possible diagnoses). What symptoms might overlap between the two diagnoses? What symptoms would help differentiate between the diagnoses?

3. What psychotherapeutic modality would you recommend for the patient, and what is the rationale? Include if you would recommend individual, group, family, couples therapy. Would you refer the patient for any specialized psychological testing?

4. Describe discharge criteria for the patient. What must the client successfully do, achieve, or complete for you to discharge the patient for your current patient load?

Case #1 Demographics: 76-year-old Canadian woman Living Situation: Assisted Living Facility Chief Complaint: "My memory is getting worse." Appointment Setting: At Assisted Living Facility Medical Clinic Presentation: Uses a cane to ambulate, talkative with other residents in the waiting area. Summary: Alzheimer's Disease versus Frontotemporal Cognitive Disorder Staff report she has been getting lost going to her room and entering the room of other residents recently, thinking it is her room. Skipping meals and insists she has already been to the dinner, at other times will come to the dinner twice in a row and insist she has not eaten yet.

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