Dementia awareness 1.1 The term ‘dementia’ is used to describe a number of symptoms including memory loss‚ problems communicating and reasoning. It also affects a person’s ability to perform every day activities such as washing‚ dressing‚ cooking and generally caring for themselves. 1.2 The key functions that are affect by dementia include: * Frontal lobe- This part of the brain is responsible for problem solving‚ making decisions‚ controlling behaviour and emotions * Temporal
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Exploring the impact of caring for a spouse with dementia on the older adult Caring for a spouse with dementia poses significant challenges and many studies report considerable impacts on both the physical and mental health of caregivers. DSM-IV criteria for dementia: “Memory deficit that can be demonstrated objectively on cognitive testing. At least one other cognitive deficit such as aphasia (abnormal speech)‚ executive function impairment (difficulty with planning‚ judgment‚ mental flexibility
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Dementia D1 In this part of the essay I will evaluate how different approaches to caring for people with dementia can affect individual outcomes. I will evaluate the difference of someone living at home with dementia and someone who is living in a care home also suffering with dementia. When living at home with dementia the individual will have professional help come to them to help with daily tasks such as supervising medication intake‚ enabling optimum health and safety at home‚ providing a patient
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Anisha Saddy Saddy 1 Ms. Goodson English III Hn/ 4th Period December 13‚ 2013 Dementia: A Growing Health Concern Needing Further Resources Humphrey Ominisan once said‚ “You cannot have everything in life. Even the trees must lose their leaves.” He is absolutely correct. In our first two stages of life‚ childhood and adulthood‚ we are young and we are preparing
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The Effects of Alzheimer’s and Dementia on the Brain My friend and her family are currently through a trying time now. Her grandfather does not know who she is; He is combative and confused‚ it hurts them to see him like this‚ he is not himself. Her father does not recognize his own father (Davis). This is Dementia. It does not only affect the patient‚ it affects the people around him. The question is how does Dementia and Alzheimer’s affect the brain? In 1999 the number of 4 million with Alzheimer’s
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and this is what we called Dementia. Along with this health condition some problems arises too‚ they tend to have more likely to suffer depression as they were brought to the healthcare facility‚ they have a new environment and/or cannot cope if tragic events arise in their past life. In this case study‚ I will be discussing a patient who is presently admitted
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types of dementia In this assignment I am going to be describing 3 different types of dementia. I will be looking at Alzheimer’s disease‚ Vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia. I will be looking at what these dementias are‚ what the signs are and what the symptoms are. Dementia is a common condition that affects 800‚000 people in the UK‚ someone’s risk of developing dementia increases as you get older and the condition usually occurs in people over the age of 65 years old. Dementia is a syndrome
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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
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Non-preventable and Non-reversible: Lewy Body Dementia On April 10th 2010‚ my dad informed me that my grandmother had passed away. She was 90-years-old‚ and although she may have lived a long life‚ the last eight or so years of her life were very rough. The official reason she passed away was because of Lewy Body Dementia. This degenerative disease‚ meaning it is not reversible‚ is thought to have sprouted from an infection she had in her kidneys in 2002. She lived at home for a while after her
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suffering from dementia. This is where the loss of thinking‚ memory‚ and reasoning skills are taking place‚ and a person is significantly impaired to carry out their daily tasks. Symptoms include the inability to remember information‚ asking the same questions over and over again‚ becoming lost or confused in familiar places‚ being unable to follow directions‚ or neglecting personal safety‚ hygiene‚ or nutrition (National Institute on Aging‚ 2009). Some types of dementia include; vascular dementia which is
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