Blood sugar levels and dementia: how our diet could be leading to memory impairment Dementia and memory loss is of major concern for all of us. It is estimated that 35 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and it has been proposed that this number will grow to around 100 million within the next thirty years (Copped’e‚ 2012). Although‚ it has previously been established that an important risk factor of dementia is diabetes (Bijal‚ 2012)‚ new evidence now suggests that sugar intake
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the challenges that come with caring of dementia sufferer? By: Joy Melanie M. Pacificador Introduction Dementia is a syndrome caused by a disease of the brain that is usually progressive‚ in which there is impairment of brain functions including the mental ability‚ personality and behavior. (Bryant &Ouldred‚ 2008). A diagnosis of dementia can have a devastating effect to the person‚ their family‚ and people around them. When a person with dementia finds that their mental abilities are declining
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CPD Continual Personal Development PC Person-Centered PCA Person-Centred Approach UPR Unconditional positive regard Introduction and background “Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients”. Person-Centred (PC) counselling also known as Client-Centred or Rogerian counselling is a humanist therapy‚ which emerged in the 1950’s‚ offering individuals an alternative to other Behavioral/Psychoanalytic methods. Humanistic
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Part A Compare and contrast how the person-centred and psychodynamic models of counselling understand the person‚ and how these two approaches explain psychological distress experienced by individuals. (1250 words) Within society today‚ there is an extensive range of theoretical approaches used by Psychotherapists and counsellors. The aim of this discussion is to compare and contrast two of these approaches‚ the person-centred and the psychodynamic models of counselling‚ especially how these theories
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ROGERS: SEVEN STAGES OF THERAPEUTIC GROWTH TOWARDS FULL FUNCTIONING from Merry‚ T. & Lusty‚ B. (1993) What is Person- Centred Therapy?‚ Loughton‚ Essex: Gale Centre Publications. Rogers thought there were seven stages that he could observe‚ and they enabled him to see whether his clients were making progress in therapy‚ or whether they seemed to be stuck‚ for a time unable to move on. Although the process can be erratic‚ clients do‚ in general progress step by step‚ building on their experiences
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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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Unit 33 Understand the Process and Experience of Dementia Understand the neurology of dementia 1.1 Dementia is an umbrella term for a range of diseases that affect memory‚ behaviour and motor skills. The causes vary depending on the disease but largely the presence of “plaques” and “tangles” on the neurons of the brain is found in people with Alzheimer’s. Plaques are protein that the body no longer breaks down and allows to build up; these get between the neurons and disrupt the message transmission
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variant of what was then termed senile dementia. At the time this degeneration was referred to as Pick’s disease‚ a term allegedly coined by one of his pupils (Weder‚ et al‚ 2007)‚ and related to the progressive destruction of neurons mainly in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. This condition has subsequently been designated Frontal-Temporal Dementia (FTD)‚ and is considered second only to Alzheimer’s disease in terms of the most common cause of dementia (Pasquier & Petit‚ 1997). This essay
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essay has asked me to look at Person-Centred Therapy and evaluate if this approach can treat a client alone. I will first look at what Person-Centred approach is‚ and then consider its advantages and disadvantages. I can then answer the question‚ whether I think it offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients. Carl Rogers developed this approach through years of working as a psychotherapist. He believed people continually strive to become a person and this never stops. This
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Vascular Dementia Vascular dementia is a common cause of dementia in the elderly. Dementia is a condition that affects the brain and causes people to not think well or act normally. Vascular dementia is one type of dementia. It occurs when blood clots block small blood vessels in the brain and destroy brain tissue. Likely risk factors are high blood pressure and advanced age. This disease can cause stroke‚ migraine-like headaches‚ and psychiatric disturbances. SYMPTOMS Confusion. Problems
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