death of intimate partners. Whether older adults could overcome the crisis highly depends on how they review their early lives. If older adults accept past failures and see their lives as successful‚ integrity could be built and wisdom could be attained. In contrast‚ with regrets and feeling dissatisfied with life‚ despair would be the result (Erikson‚ Erikson‚ & Kivnick‚ 1986). This may increase the opportunity of having mental health
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Introduction Dementia is a public health problem currently affecting 24.3 million people worldwide and it is estimated that there will be about 81.1 million people diagnosed with dementia by 2040 as the number of older people increase globally (Ferri et al. 2005). This paper discusses the types‚ symptoms and causes of dementia‚ it also includes the methods of diagnosing and treating dementia with respect to their rights as individuals. Methods of easing burden of caregivers through drug therapy
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Exploring the impact of caring for a spouse with dementia on the older adult Caring for a spouse with dementia poses significant challenges and many studies report considerable impacts on both the physical and mental health of caregivers. DSM-IV criteria for dementia: “Memory deficit that can be demonstrated objectively on cognitive testing. At least one other cognitive deficit such as aphasia (abnormal speech)‚ executive function impairment (difficulty with planning‚ judgment‚ mental flexibility
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Alzheimers/Dementia Awareness I’m going to start by giving a few definitions on Alzheimers and Dementia‚ so that up front we can learn that these two things are different. Many people use the two terms interchangeably but they actually are not the same thing. Dementia is a general term used for memory loss which is severe enough to interfere with daily life. Dementia is a very broad term‚ so you may think you’re using it to describe Alzheimer’s disease when really you’re using a broad term which
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December 13‚ 2013 Dementia: A Growing Health Concern Needing Further Resources Humphrey Ominisan once said‚ “You cannot have everything in life. Even the trees must lose their leaves.” He is absolutely correct. In our first two stages of life‚ childhood and adulthood‚ we are young and we are preparing for whatever it may be that life throws at us; trying to get into a good college‚ taking care of family‚ or even preparing financially for retirement. However‚ older age constitutes
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Dementia is mean‚ mind stealing disease that affects many elderly patients in different ways. It begins with forgetting small things like where you put your car keys‚ and escalates into forgetting yourself and your family. Many can function well with dementia for a period of time‚ but then generally have to transition into receiving help from family caregivers and/or nursing facilities such as nursing homes or assisted living. Dementia can turn a normal thinking person into an irrational person who
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Non-preventable and Non-reversible: Lewy Body Dementia On April 10th 2010‚ my dad informed me that my grandmother had passed away. She was 90-years-old‚ and although she may have lived a long life‚ the last eight or so years of her life were very rough. The official reason she passed away was because of Lewy Body Dementia. This degenerative disease‚ meaning it is not reversible‚ is thought to have sprouted from an infection she had in her kidneys in 2002. She lived at home for a while after her
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Dementia is the loss of intellectual and social abilities severe enough to interfere with daily functioning. For centuries‚ people called it senility and considered it an inevitable part of aging. It is now known that dementia is not a normal part of the aging process and that it is caused by an underlying condition. People with this condition need special assistance to carry on with their normal lives. This paper will explain some of the social services that are helping to combat this disease and
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from normal aging. >People living in high traffic areas prone to higher risk of dementia If you are living near to high-traffic areas or roads‚ you are at a higher risk of developing dementia than those who live in remote places away from the traffic‚ as per a new research. Researchers revealed that those who live at 50 metres away from high-traffic roads have seven percent more likelihood of developing dementia when compared to people who lived more than 300 meters away from busy roads. The
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Questions Unit 21 Understand the process and experience of dementia Q.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells. This damage interferes with the ability of brain cells to communicate with each other. When brain cells cannot communicate normally‚ thinking‚ behaviour and feelings can be affected. The brain has many distinct regions‚ each of which is responsible for different functions (for example‚ memory‚ judgment and movement). When cells in
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