In Alzheimer’s disease, the person may suffer a significant cognitive
impairment, and one of the most common problems within them is memory loss, which
may be seriously compromised. Usually, retrograde amnesia occurs at an advanced
stage of the disease. However, anterograde amnesia usually occurs in early episodes of
the process, and must have strategies to decrease its progression. People affected by
Alzheimer’s, due to the characteristics of the pathology, will need continued care in the
course of the disease and, moreover, the nurses should have training in this area to help
patients improve their prospective memory. In an exhaustive review of the literature,
there are interventions that the nurses can do independently with the patient, and other
interventions that can do in an interdisciplinary way, along with other professionals.
Keywords: Anterograde Amnesia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory, Nursing
Research.
