Research Analysis
Topic
Assignment: Alzheimer's Disease Research Analysis
Instructions
To complete this assignment you must have watched the following the 3 videos, read the course text, Ornish (2024) & the DSM.
Reading
- Gray (2025) Chapter 15: The Neurocognitive Disorders
- DSM-5-TR: pp. 667-732
- Ornish et al. (2024) Effects of intensive lifestyle changes on the progression of mild cognitive impairment or early dementia due to Alzheimer's disease
Videos
- CNN: The last Alzheimer's patient
- What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's
- Nuns help researchers discover more about Alzheimer's
Guidelines:
- In 2 pages, double-spaced, 12 point font (see here for what constitutes a paragraph) critically reflect on what you learned. Do not summarize the films. I want to hear your critical reflection. See this document for a description of what critical reflection entails: What is Critical Reflection? (PDF).
- Do not go film by film (or article) discussing each one independently, but rather write an integrative paper, bridging the important concepts about this disease that intersects this week's materials.
- Do NOT do this paper in question and answer (Q&A) format, but instead write three-four professionally written paragraphs.
I want to hear your thoughts so please do not summarize the articles but rather develop your ideas.
Feel free to be creative just make sure you discuss all 3 films and the Ornish et al. (2024) article.
Papers will be graded based on the following:
- Skills in critically reflecting and comprehension of this week's materials.
- Level of sophistication of the discussion.
- Quality of writing style.
- Application to social work practice.
- Use of self and personal reflection.