Task A Fact sheet 1A) A definition of the term dementia. Dementia is a progressive disease of the brain where the brain is damaged which is terminal ‚ depending on which part of the brain is affected is to what type of dementia it is ‚ examples are Alzheimer’s ‚ Picks ‚ vascular and Parkinson’s disease ‚ these conditions can affect every aspects of the person’s life ‚ affecting short term memory ‚ mobility ‚ sight and how thoughts are processed ‚ and how the person views the world themselves
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Health&Social Care (adult) Advanced Diploma including Dementia Pathway Unit CU1572 Support Use of Medication in Social Care Settings 1.1. There are four acts that governs the use of medication in social care settings. a.) The Medicine act 1968 -governs the manufacture & supply of medicines. This requires that the local pharmacist or dispensing doctor is responsible for supplying medication. He or she can only do this on the receipt of a prescription from an authorised person eg a doctor.
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individual’s interests and the common good is a delicate balancing act that political philosophers such as Socrates‚ Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and Sophocles have tried to define. For philosophers such as Socrates and Plato‚ the common good trumps the individual interest when those interests interfere with what they believe is right for society as a whole. For others like Aristotle and Locke‚ a consensus on what the common good is must be defined within the reality that individual interests exists; meaning
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Unit 4222-320 Support individuals to live at home Outcome 1 Understand the principles of supporting individuals to live at home 1. describe how being supported to live at home can benefit an individual when we have to support an individuals to live at home though in house supported living by mencap‚ this can benefit individual service users because support can helps promote and encouraging them to be more independence. The service users gain a greater sense of normality‚ they will
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Person centred is about providing care and support that is centred or focused on an individual and their needs. We are all individual and just because two people might have the same medical condition‚ for example‚ Dementia‚ it does not mean that they require the same care and support. You will need to develop a clear understanding about the individuals you are working with. This includes their likes and dislikes‚ their culture‚ their needs‚ their means of communication‚ their friends and family and
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interaction and Communication with individuals who have dementia. 1.1 Losing the ability to communicate can be one of the most frustrating and difficult problems for people with dementia‚ their families and carers. As the illness progresses‚ a person with dementia experiences a gradual lessening of their ability to communicate. They find it more and more difficult to express themselves clearly and to understand what others say. Each person with dementia is unique and difficulties in communicating
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Unit 56: Support care plan activities R/601/8015 1.1 Identify sources of information about the individual and specific care plan activities Having a holistic approach will allow us to know better our service user and so‚ support him in the best way accordingly with his needs. By actively involving the service user we may obtain most of his relevant information such as health state‚ circumstances and his religious and cultural background. Accounting with service user provider permission we may obtain
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WHAT FACTORS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BY RESEARCHERS WHEN DEFINING THE DATA REQUIRED FOR THEIR RESEARCH Data are materials or information gathered during the process of making inquiry about problems. “Data of whatever form do not just appear or lie around waiting to be causally picked up by some passing researcher but have to be given form and shape in other to quantify as data; made relevant in a word to a research problem” (Ackryod and Hughes‚ 1992). In other words‚ data are systematically collected
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WHAT IS DEMENTIA? Dementia is a term that describes a collection of symptoms that include decreased intellectual functioning that interferes with normal life functions and is usually used to describe people who have two or more major life functions impaired or lost such as memory‚ language‚ perception‚ judgment or reasoning; they may lose emotional and behavioral control‚ develop personality changes and have problem solving abilities reduced or lost. There are different classification schemes for
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Agitation is often seen in elderly with dementia and it can also be improved with the use of music therapy. Mathews found that there were “...mood-shifting effects; enhancement of cognitive function; reduction in agitation‚ anxiety‚ or wandering; the improvement in response to family and staff; and improvement in coordination and motor function” (Mathews). Elderly who deal with dementia often have agitation due to the loss of control they have over their minds and their lives. As a result‚ they tend
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