The nurse will record that the patient with Alzheimer's disease exhibited agnosia when the patient:
a. attempted to comb her hair with a spoon.
b. had difficulty expressing herself verbally.
c. was unable to understand written lan-guage.
d. could not feed herself, although she had adequate motor function to do so.
A
Agnosia is the inability to recognize an object and use it as intended. Expressive aphasia is diffi-culty in expressing oneself. Alexia is the inability to recognize the written language. Apraxia is the inability to do an activity despite having the motor function to accomplish it.
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