INSTRUCTIONS:
Your response for each should be 2-2.5 pages long (typed, double-spaced, 11 or 12 point Times-like font, 1-inch margins top and bottom as well as left and right). You have considerable flexibility in how you respond to the questions; just be sure to think deeply and write thoughtfully, as well as clearly, concisely, completely and compellingly (my 4 Cs!), Support your statements as needed with other sources and appropriate citations (using APA citation style). Drawing on the Alzheimer’s Disease International (2014) reading on dementia and class discussions, please answer all of the following questions: • Have you ever known someone who lives with dementia? How does/did dementia affect that person and his/her family? Did his/her gender make a difference? Be specific. • What are the prevailing hypotheses on the sex/gender differences in the incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease? Which makes the most sense to you? Why? • Given changes to US demographics in the coming decades—population aging, smaller families—what thoughts do you have on how older adults with dementia should be cared for?