Advocacy for Seniors with Dementia/Alzheimer’s Jeri Fletcher BSHS/441 May 23‚ 2013 Deborah Cujino-Deras Advocacy for Seniors with Dementia/Alzheimer’s Advocacy is defined as a person who advocates on the behalf of an individual or a group. The advocate provides the client support at helping the client resolve issues that affects his or hers daily life (Barsky‚ 2007). Advocating for seniors with Alzheimer’s that face issues with their‚ health and overall wellbeing. This disease threatens
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King Lear and Dementia: A Physical and Emotion Struggle The opening scene of King Lear begins to show the unhealthy state that King Lear is in‚ when it portrays Lear separating his kingdom and giving it to his daughters based on how much they love him. Lear bans his most prized daughter‚ Cordelia from the kingdom and leaves her with nothing only because she was honest with her response‚ which begins to show his state of senselessness. Lear demonstrates his mental illness throughout various scenes
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medical record indicates that her onset of Alzheimer’s dementia started 8 years ago. She has now progressed in her dementia to been a Fast 7E. She has had multiple hospitalizations for recurrent pneumonia and UTI’s. She was recently discharge from hospice due to a prognosis of greater than 6 months. At today’s visit she is accompanied by her husband and private caregiver. She is alert and nonverbal. She is a poor historian due to her advanced dementia. The husband reports that she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
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Dementia is a horrible disease that affects the elderly population. I am currently the caregiver to my mother- in -law who has dementia‚ currently I had to place her in a long term care (LTC) facility and every day I wonder if it was the right thing to do‚ or if I could have prolonged the inevitable. I chose to explore this population and how case management (CM) interventions would have delayed placement. The goal was to determine through interventions if CM support to caregivers‚ could delay placement
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Description The patient presents with dementia‚ poor posture (her chin close to her chest) and dislikes solids‚ there for has to be assisted to feed and chooses only to consume liquids. Her communication skills are also poor and doesn’t have the capacity to engage in a flowing conversation but has the ability to answer a question using the words ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or by saying individual words. I was given the task of feeding the patient at lunch time as she requires one to one support at meal times
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Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) occurs in the brain and is considered one of the most common dementias. This condition is a rare disease in which doctors find hard to diagnose because it is so similar to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. It is most commonly diagnosed to males that are over the age of sixty and or either have family members with LBD or Parkinson’s. “LBD a rare disease that affects an estimated 1.4 million in the United States” (Lbda). After this disease is diagnosed the patients do not
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Unit 4222-237 Dementia awareness (DEM 201) Outcome 1 1. Dementia is not an illness or disease in itself ‚ but is a broad term which describes a range of signs and symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by certain disease and conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia. 2. AREA OF THE BRAIN KEY FUNCTIONING that could be affected by dementia Frontal lobe Movement ‚ emotional behaviour ‚ personality interpretation and feeling Parietal lobe Language ‚ spacial awareness and
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Dementia * Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. Memory loss is an example. Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia. * It’s an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. Explanation: * Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells. This damage interferes with the ability
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Running Head: DEMENTIA: HOW AND WHOM DOES IT AFFECT? 1 Dementia: How and Whom Does it Affect? Liberty University COUNS 502 B-23LUO Instructor: Dr. Richard Pace Shelly M. Becker March 5‚ 2013 DEMENTIA: HOW AND WHOM DOES IT AFFECT? 2 Abstract Although dementia is often viewed as an “old person’s disorder‚ its effects ripple down in many directions such as family‚ caregivers‚ finances‚ and the healthcare system
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may have heard about Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Dementia. There’s multiple types of dementia like Vascular‚ Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. This is important to understand between Alzheimer’s and Dementia because most people confuse them for not being the same. The AD and dementia falls under the category having the same cognitive impairment symptom. In fact‚ some people get confused by aging you start forgetting thinking you have dementia. To understand this disease‚ you have to know the
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