Cu1672 Understand And Meet The Nutritional Requirements Of Individuals With Dementia
Cu1672 Understand and Meet the Nutritional Requirements of Individuals with Dementia
1.1 Describe how cognitive, functional and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating, drinking and nutrition
Cognitive behaviour is dysfunctional emotions and behaviours caused by damage in brain affecting part of the brain responsible for memory and all that we learn from birth- how to talk, eat etc. This means that person with dementia can forget how important it is to eat and drink. They also may lose sense of hunger and thirst. It can become problem putting client’s health at risk. In our daycentre we have a client who can have a drink but as soon as they have finished they want another as they think they haven’t had one. It’s the same with food as well we have a client who would eat all day because they have forgotten that they have just eaten, I have known a client to say that they have just eaten so they don’t need anything at lunch but they haven’t eaten since breakfast. Functional change is losing ability to remember how to eat using cutlery. Instead, some people find easier to pick up food by hand, so finger food should be provided. This might be a good way to avoid confusion and distress for a client. If person finds it easier food should be laid out for a client promoting their dignity. We do have some clients who can’t cut their own food and sometimes they could avoid eating it, as they don’t want to ask us to cut it up, so we now know if a client can’t cut their food up we do it in the kitchen but make it look as if it hasn’t so the client will eat it if they want. We also provide foods to each client’s needs.
Emotional change can be negative emotions about the confused state when individual may not understand that there is something wrong, but behaviour of others may lead them to feeling something is wrong, which often causes stress to individual with dementia.
1.2 Explain how poor nutrition can contribute to an individual’s experience of
1.1 Describe how cognitive, functional and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating, drinking and nutrition
Cognitive behaviour is dysfunctional emotions and behaviours caused by damage in brain affecting part of the brain responsible for memory and all that we learn from birth- how to talk, eat etc. This means that person with dementia can forget how important it is to eat and drink. They also may lose sense of hunger and thirst. It can become problem putting client’s health at risk. In our daycentre we have a client who can have a drink but as soon as they have finished they want another as they think they haven’t had one. It’s the same with food as well we have a client who would eat all day because they have forgotten that they have just eaten, I have known a client to say that they have just eaten so they don’t need anything at lunch but they haven’t eaten since breakfast. Functional change is losing ability to remember how to eat using cutlery. Instead, some people find easier to pick up food by hand, so finger food should be provided. This might be a good way to avoid confusion and distress for a client. If person finds it easier food should be laid out for a client promoting their dignity. We do have some clients who can’t cut their own food and sometimes they could avoid eating it, as they don’t want to ask us to cut it up, so we now know if a client can’t cut their food up we do it in the kitchen but make it look as if it hasn’t so the client will eat it if they want. We also provide foods to each client’s needs.
Emotional change can be negative emotions about the confused state when individual may not understand that there is something wrong, but behaviour of others may lead them to feeling something is wrong, which often causes stress to individual with dementia.
1.2 Explain how poor nutrition can contribute to an individual’s experience of