Outcome 1 1.1Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells and in many ways‚ from alcoholism‚ brain injury‚ drug abuse‚ side effects to medications‚ depression‚ age‚ thyroid function abnormalities‚ and vitamin B12 deficiency. Alzheimer’s Dementia is caused by a build-up of proteins which the body no longer breaks down and this affects the transmission of signals. 1.2Memory loss can be defines in different ways. Memory loss can be the inability to retrieve information from the long-term memory
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Causes of Falls in People with Dementia People with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia tend to be at high risk of falling. They are more than three times likely to fracture their hip when they fall‚ which leads to surgery and immobility. The death rate for those with Alzheimers is also increased. Therefore‚ fall prevention for people with dementia is critical. One of the ways to reduce the amount of falls for those with Alzheimers is to find out why they fall. If we can find out why people
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Tara D. Frazier Frazier Mr.Bluhm Page 1 ENG 110 05/21/2013 Babies Having Babies It’s a gloomy‚ rainy day when I see the young girl sitting at the bus terminal in a yellow rain slicker. She sits alone‚ soaking wet. My seventeen year old daughter elbows me leaning her head in the direction of the young girl who is obviously very pregnant and whispers‚ “Mom‚ how pregnant do you think she is?” which she immediately follows with‚ “Man‚ she’s young!” I take a closer look at
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worldwide have Alzheimer’s or dementia related disease‚ according to alzheimers.net (2016). As the disease progresses dementia patients become increasingly confused. Many forget who they are including losing most memories they once shared with their loved ones. In addition‚ as the disease progresses many individuals become depressed‚ anxious and agitated in dementia patients because of feeling lost and uneasy in their environment. However‚ they can feel a sense of comfort by having a pet in their presence
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special people to be able to handle someone with such a heart and that is why a lot of friendships will grow apart because people struggle with understanding how your heart thrives on others’ happiness. One of the biggest things you will struggle with having a big heart is putting everyone else’s happiness above yours. The biggest lie you tell to others’ is that as long as their happy then you don’t care‚ but secretly you are dying
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Music therapy in care for dementia Dementia is an extremely common disease among the elderly‚ with 4 million Americans currently suffering from the Alzheimer’s type alone. Figures show that 3% of people between the ages of 65-74 suffer from the disease‚ rapidly increasing to 19% for the 75-84 age bracket‚ and as high as 47% for the over 85s. Therefore‚ it is easy to see why Dementia is such a large part of many people’s lives‚ whether they are suffering from the condition themselves‚ or have
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Enhancing dignity in the care of people with dementia Professor Lesley Baillie Florence Nightingale Foundation Chair of Clinical Nursing Practice‚ London South Bank University and University College :London Hospitals Plan Types of dignity • Human dignity: the dignity that all humans have and cannot be taken away • Social dignity: experienced through interaction - dignity-of-self and dignity-inrelation (Jacobson 2007) • So for people with dementia: • We must acknowledge and respect their human
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Arian Geary English 1117-16 Personal Essay 9/22/12 Babies Having Babies My life as a teenager would soon be coming to an end and my life as mommy would be coming up faster then expected. It all started June 10th 2012‚ my family and I had just finished eating our dinner celebrating my achievement of getting my GED. I had received cards‚ gifts‚ and even some money from my family members for finally receiving this GED after being out of school for my senior year. Everybody was so happy
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Understand the process and experience of dementia. 1. Understand the neurology of dementia. 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome. The Cambridge dictionary describes dementia as “ medical condition that affects especially old people‚ causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse‚ leading to confused behaviour”. Basically dementia is a serious deterioration in mental functions such as memory‚ language‚ orientation and judgement. This illness however
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11 December 2012 Dementia affecting the lives of many Sometimes the word Dementia can be quite scary to hear and quite frankly it is pretty scary to hear. Many people don’t really take the time to stop and realize that it might be something that can be life threating and without them even knowing they might already be having some of the early symptoms. There is no such thing as going in to the doctor to early and getting checked out for dementia. Once someone gets dementia there is no way on
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