Question

how does Erikson's stages of psychological development fit into the neuro-cofnitive disorder of Alzhiemers disease?

Answer 1

Erikson's stages theory characterizes an individual advancing through the life stages as a function of negotiating their biological and sociocultural forces.Each stage is characterized by a psychosocial crisis of these two conflicting forces.If an individual does indeed successfully reconcile these forces they emerge with the corresponding virtue. Example if infant enters into the toddler stage with more trust than mistrust they carry the virtue of hope into the remaining life stages. If challenges of stage not completed it may be return as problems in future.

Stages of age	Psychological crisis stages	Virtue	Example
Infancy	Trust versus mistrust	Hope	feeding
Toddler	Autonomy vs shame/Doubt	will	toilet training
Early child hood	Initiative vs guilt	purpose	Exploring
Middle childhood	Industry vs inferiority	competence	school sports
Adolescence	Identity vs role confusion	fidelity	social relationship
Early adulthood	Intimacy vs isolation	love	romantic relationship
Middle adulthood	Generativity vs stagnation	care	work,parenthood
Late adulthood	Ego integrity vs despair.	Wisdom	reflection on life.

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive that destroys memory and other important mental function. Cognition impairment is present ,Main cognition function impaired is memory, it leads to disturbs in daily activities of living ,psychological crisis develop ,poor functioning brings them back into child hood disfucntions like poor toileting,forgetting things.