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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Possible To Have Diversity‚ Equality and Inclusion In Dementia Care? People with dementia can be very vulnerable and may not be able to communicate their wants and needs to other people. It is therefore up to the people who are caring for the individual to make sure that their interests are being protected‚ and to ensure that they are being treated equally and fairly and do not face any discrimination. Many people do not understand dementia and do not know how to go about trying to communicate
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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. Figures are showing that there are 850‚000 people living with dementia in the UK‚ by 2050 that figure
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happening to my Grandma. She has been diagnosed with vascular dementia and it has been detrimental to her life and her mind‚ and I hate to think about what it will do to her in the future. She is 80 years old and is still able to live alone‚ however her son lives across the road from her. Other than having dementia‚ she is a healthy person. She has always been a caring and loving person that has always taken care of others. Dementia has drastically changed her life. She has always been very caring
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in extreme pain‚ dysfunction‚ distress or death.’ (Biology Online) Disease throughout History Over the years‚ there has ‘been a gradual decline in mortality from all three of the main diseases.’ These diseases being‚ cancer‚ circulatory disease‚ dementia‚ and Alzheimer’s disease. Cancer use to be the highest cause of death. ‘30% off all registered deaths’ were due to a person having been diagnosed with some sort
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