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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“Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients” The humanistic movement was established as a way to expand and improve upon the two other schools of thought; behaviourism and psychoanalysis‚ which had‚ up until the first half of the 20th century dominated psychology. An American theorist called Abraham Maslow began to research creativity in humans through art and science. He first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in
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LITERATURE REVIEW. Abstract Within the dementia care environment‚ it is my experience that it is often unclear to nursing staff as to appropriate assessment and management of pain for clients in the palliative stage of their illness. Although nurses have their experience to guide their practice‚ as the health professional most involved with the client at the end of life‚ there is a need for review of current assessment tools and management strategies to ensure the care given is evidence based and best
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Unit 4222-237 Dementia awareness (DEM 201) 1.1 Dementia is a loss of brain function. If affects memory‚ thinking‚ language‚ judgement and behaviour. Dementia is progressive‚ so the symptoms will gradually get worse. In a later stage of dementia people will find it hard to carry out daily tasks and will come dependant on other people. 1.2 The key functions of the brain that is affected by dementia are: · The Frontal lobe; which is to do with behaviour‚ the person’s personality‚ interpretation
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does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.” The writer and George are very cheerful persons. They went to village inn to pass time happily and to enjoy themselves. They were quite intelligent. They knew how to befool other. They went on listening to the stories of five persons. They listen to these stories just for pleasure. They were quite amusing. They asked a middle-aged person how he had caught the fish and he began telling conceitedly how he had caught it. As George in “Three
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“Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients” Simon Wakefield MANCH2A 12 – Yvonne Hale – Word Count -2339 Carl Rodgers was born in Illinois‚ Chicago On January 8th 1902. The fourth of six children he was educated in a strict religious environment. His early career choices included agriculture‚ history and religion‚ giving serious thought into joining the Ministry until the age of 20 when he began to re-evaluate his life and
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DEMENTIA AWARNESS 1.Understand what dementia is 1.1 Explain what is meant by the term ’dementia’ A syndrome due to disease of the brain‚ usually of a chronic progressive nature in which there are multiple disturbances of higher cognitive function. These include impairment of memory‚ thinking and orientation‚ learning ability‚ language and judgement. 1.2 Describe the key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia The key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia are the temporal
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functional and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating‚ drinking and nutrition? Cognitive: depending on the type of dementia a person has they may have trouble in recognising the food in front of them or not understand that the food provided is for them‚ they may even view the food in front of them as food. This can be caused by their minds not recognising what is in front of them. Functional: depending on the type of dementia a person has they may struggle to use their knife‚ fork
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As already highlighted in the above section one approach to person centred practice is treating everyone as an individual. Laws such as the Human Rights Act 1998‚ Health and Social Care act 2012‚ state that each and every person should be treated as an individual and the care that they receive should be specifically tailored to them as every persons support needs are specific and individual to them. If as a professional‚ you were to have the same approach with each and every service user‚ set the
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Dementia is a progressive disorder that is characterised by the deterioration of memory and one of the other cognitive abilities such as language or skilled movements[1]. Lewy body dementia is a type of dementia that has many similar features to other forms of dementia. However it is characterised by a distinct set of clinical symptoms such as visual hallucinations‚neuroleptic sensitivity‚ sleep disorders and parkinsonism. Lewy body dementia is a common form of dementia that come only second to
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