of Life and Dementia Care . Credit Value : 2 This unit must be assessed in accordance with Skills for Care and Development’s QCF Assessment Principles. Learning Outcome 1 : Understand considerations for individuals with dementia at end of life Assessment Criteria 1.1. Outline in what ways dementia can be a terminal illness Dementia is brain atrophy. It’s a degenerative disease‚ which is progressive‚ and for the time being‚ incurable condition. Dementia is a terminal
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Alzheimer’s and Dementia really the same thing? Aysha Culliver December 13‚ 2012 5th Period Woodward Purpose I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer’s is not the person they knew. I wander to myself. Who are they then? –Bob DeMarco. What is Alzheimer ’s disease? Alzheimer ’s disease is a disease that slowly and little by little destroys brain cells. It is neither transmittable nor contagious‚ but is the single most common cause of dementia. A condition that
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uterly INCONGRUOUS that i’d buried the recollection of that PERFIDIOUS‚ ANOMALOUS PERVERSION my subcochous. the shadow of an unknown thing‚ curdling the air as it draws inexorably closer the the serfuse of my day time brain.i felt the erudition of dementia i my mind desolved in the THAT HATEFUL‚ ABYSMAL‚ PLIABLE acid of the the unknowable THAT PUTRID‚ PITILESS‚ LIQUID shadow the carods all mans sanity. the mountans rows up behind me prasipatisly. he found him self being submerged in that infeasible
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explaining to a patient that they have Alzheimer’s or some form of dementia it can be very challenging. When dealing with one of these diseases they both have some sort of memory lost. When a person is diagnosed with dementia‚ they are being diagnosed with a set of symptoms. Another difference is that Alzheimer’s is not a reversible disease. It is very important for a MA to know the difference when dealing with Alzheimer’s and dementia. A person who is being diagnosed with dementia they are being
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experience of dementia Understand the neurology of dementia 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome Fixed cognitive impairments are due to a single event. Traumatic brain injury may cause generalized damage to the white matter of the brain or localized damages. A temporary reduction in the supply of blood and oxygen to the brain may lead to this type of dementia. A stroke or brain infection can also be the cause of dementia. Excessive alcoholic intake results in alcoholic dementia. Use of
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Alzheimer’s Dementia Alzheimer ’s disease is a progressive brain disorder that damages and eventually destroys brain cells‚ leading to memory loss and changes in thinking and other brain functions. It usually develops slowly and gradually gets worse as more brain cells wither and die. Ultimately‚ Alzheimer ’s is fatal‚ and currently‚ there is no cure. Alzheimer ’s disease is the most common type of dementia‚ a general term used to describe various diseases and conditions that
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knowledge of dementia was old because I have nursed for over thirty years and had not gained recent knowledge in this field‚ only through personal experience. Since 2008 I have worked on a private ward which includes a mixture of medical‚ surgical and palliative clients. Last year through Alzheimer’s WA I undertook the Dementia Champion course. The course provided a dementia file and instructed us on how to educate. The file emphasized that my knowledge base was absent across areas of dementia care including
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Organisation (2006) estimated that there are 18 million people living with dementia‚ which is expected to double to 37 million by 2025. Dementia is a general term indicating changes to cognitive function that result from a range of specific‚ usually progressive and irreversible disorders of the brain. The most common of these disorders is Alzheimer’s disease (50-70% of cases) (Alzheimer ’s Association 2007). The symptoms of dementia include loss of memory‚ confusion and problems with speech and understanding
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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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this policy is that they’re trying to make every clinics dementia friendly; environments‚ as this could take a long time as well as during this time dementia service users or client might be differentiated alongside and their treatment during this time might be incomplete. However‚ this has a negative influence on anti-discriminatory practice the reason is that some clients might be discriminated against and not be treated as other dementia service users in other areas‚ may be treated as a result
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