CU4177 End of Life & Dementia Care 1.1 Dementia is a progressive disease where an individual’s brain functions deteriorate and affects their mental capabilities. This disease is incurable which is similar to another terminal illness such as cancer. Symptoms of dementia will affect an individual’s memory leading to loss and confusing‚ language/ communication‚ understanding and judgement. Medication can be prescribed to help slow down the progression of symptoms. Within the more advanced stages the
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Frontotemporal dementia is a common and severe neurodegenerative disorder and is estimated to account for 20% of cases of degenerative dementia with presenile onset. People with Frontotemporal dementia usually affect people in the age range of 35–75‚ and head trauma is identified as a risk factor‚ there is an increased positive family history. There is a 2.5 times increased risk due a positive association with Thyroid disease and FTD. (Weder‚ Aziz‚ Wilkins‚ & Tampi‚ 2007) People with Frontotemporal
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Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England (QCF) Assignment 51: Unit 51: Understand and Enable Interaction and Communication with Individuals who Have Dementia Learning Outcome1 Understand the factors that can affect interaction and communication of individuals with dementia 1.1 Explain how different forms of dementia may affect the way an individual communicates Visual perception; if a carer isn’t at the client’s level or facing away
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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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specific field. In a like manner‚ different rules can be applied to the manufacturing and domestic maintenance. As the need for a well-planed‚ effective and safe maintenance has emerged‚ a complex methodology has been designed. It is called Reliability Centred Maintenance. Such methodology is applied to various contexts of maintenance so that there has been a little agreement on what is a real purpose of such approach. Therefore‚ current paper lingers upon the analysis and contextualization of RCM in terms
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Learning Centred Feedback in Practice Professors Ian Black and Dylan Wiliam of Kings College London reviewed a significant number of research studies and showed that formative assessment has more effect on learning than any other single factor (including prior learning). (Black & Wiliam (1998) “Assessment and Classroom Learning” in the journal Assessment in Education.) The following summarises the conclusions drawn from this research and is a good starting point for teachers in relation to assessment
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Frontotemporal Dementia People in their twenties who are experiencing behavioral issues sometimes play it off as stress‚ but sometimes‚ just to be cautious‚ you need to have it be checked out. Behavioral issues is a sign of Frontotemporal Dementia. Understanding more about FTD could help determine whether or not you are affected by it. Frotntotemporal Dementia‚ FTD‚ is a type of dementia that affects the frontal lobes of the brain. The nerve cell damage that leads to loss of function in these
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1. According to the statement given by the two famous contributors in the world‚ namely as‚ Aristotle and Boethius‚ a human being is a reasonable person which is able to find out‚ rationalized‚ and apply what he/she knows. Human person is a substance of spiritual and physical behaviour and has its own characteristics which one of it is FREE. We‚ human are brought up by our parents and grew up freely. It’s a fact that all of us have a freedom since the day we were born. We have the liberty
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differences in a screening battery for diagnosing dementia: The Florida initiative. Written by Christine Anne Cauffield‚ a practicing psychologist in Florida‚ this 1995 thesis paper explores the gender differences in the results of a battery of tests for the diagnosis of dementia. Her research reveals significant variations on how Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed across both genders. Engdahl‚ S (Ed). (2013). Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders. Dementia. Detroit: Greenhaven Press. Retrieved from https://portal
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Thank you‚ Elaine‚ for explaining the social and economic impacts of dementia. Moving on‚ are the causes of dementia. The first cause is the genetic mutation. Dementia is a chronic and progressive disease. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. Its genetic causes are mutations and polymorphisms‚ which are the variations in deoxyribonucleic acid sequences‚ in three genes‚ including presenilin 1‚ presenilin 2 and amyloid precursor protein. Using this picture to explain. This is
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