Case study 5: Dementia (Alzheimer’s Disease) Patient description: SW is a 69 year old man, he is 5’9”, weighs 173 lbs. His blood pressure is 122/80 mmHg and total cholesterol is 204mg/dl, HDL-C is 47 mg/dl. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 2 years ago, shortly after retiring from a career as a financial advisor. He has now reached symptoms consistent with stage 4 of the disease http://www.alzheimers.net/stages-of-alzheimers-disease/ .…
1.1 Dementia is an umbrella term for a range of diseases that affect memory, behaviour and motor skills. The causes vary depending on the disease but largely the presence of “plaques” and “tangles” on the neurons of the brain is found in people with Alzheimer’s. Plaques are protein that the body no longer breaks down and allows to build up; these get between the neurons and disrupt the message transmission. Tangles destroy a vital cell transport system made of proteins. The transport system is organised in orderly parallel strands like rail tracks. In healthy areas a protein call “tau” helps the tracks stay straight but in areas where tangles are forming the tau collapses into twisted strands and the tracks can no longer stay straight and fall apart and disintegrate.…
The inability to recall what they have had to eat or even forgotten they had eaten…
1.3 – Explain why depression, delirium, and age related memory impairment may be mistaken for dementia…
a) Difficulties with language - People with dementia will have difficulty finding the right words for what they want to say. They will often say a completely random word that has no meaning in the sentence that they are saying.…
This legislation affects and supports people with dementia as it has different laws. Some of these laws are things like helping people to wash and dress themselves. This helps people with dementia, as when it becomes advanced they lose their fine motor skills and they find it difficult to do simple tasks like fasten buttons and hold things, so it also makes it hard for them to wash. They have carers that will do this for them and help them do it. The legislation affects the patients care as the carer has to follow rules, such as making sure that the patient has privacy and dignity, such as washing them where nobody can see them and undressing them where they can’t be seen by other people. If this legislation wasn’t in place it would affect the person with dementia as they could be washed anywhere, and this could be in front of other people, which would mean that their body is exposed. This legislation also makes sure that people (who have had any mental disorders, are disabled or have had an addiction to drugs or alcohol) have suitable accommodation to stay in. As dementia is classified as a mental disorder, this act makes sure that they are living somewhere suitable, and it also makes sure that people with dementia are treated equally.…
1 UNDERSTAND KEY LEGISLATION AND AGREED WAYS OF WORKING THAT SUPPORT THE FULFILMENT OF RIGHTS AND CHOICES OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DEMENTIA WHILE MINIMISING RISK OF HARM…
individuals who have a learning disability has a lifelong condition that impacts on their learning, communication and understanding therefore carers need to use appropriate communication methods. They have limited cognitive ability and may not be able to understand the…
temporal lobe – The person may forget names, struggle to retain new information, repeat seemingly meaningless word, sounds or number or lose their sense of time and place…
The term 'dementia' is used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by specific diseases and conditions. Symptoms of dementia include loss of memory, confusion and problems with speech and understanding.…
3. Explain why depression, delirium and age related memory impairment may be mistaken for dementia…
As with any disease, dementia has many and varied reasons that cause it, but people think that the progress in age is the only cause that lead to dementia. This is true the progress of age can lead to dementia, but this is not the primary pathogenic. Actually, the main cause is that dementia caused when the brain cells damaged. This damage impedes the abilities and communications of the brain cells. However, as soon as the brain cells communications become abnormal, the thinking, behavior, actions and emotions will be affects. The brain has many different regions, and each region responsible for vary task, when the cells of the region damaged, the region will function in an abnormal way. Dementia causes divided into three sections, which are common causes, less common and rare.…
Dementias that can't be cured such as Alzheimer’s can be prescribed a medicine that may prevent symptoms getting worse. Normally people who suffer and are in the middle stages of this disease or are elderly are prescribed this.…
In one of the recent happenings, a judge slammed a woman for the sole reason of spending sick mother’s money on junk food items. The elderly woman has been reported to be suffering from Dementia and the amount spent by her daughter has amounted to approximately £250 a month on "unnecessary food". According to Judge Denzil Lush, the divorcee often used to turn up at a nursing home with different types of junk food items such as pork pies, biscuits and mini sausage rolls.…
There are lots of policies and guidelines that can be found regarding pwd, there are relevant surveys that are carried out to obtain information from the people experiencing living with dementia and caring for someone with dementia the surveys are designed for people to be able to honest about how they are coping, or what services they use and how they help its thought that by delivering your version of events someone may take that information read it and decisions can be made to make improvements in areas that are needed- in an ideal world of course.…