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    Enhancing dignity in the care of people with dementia Professor Lesley Baillie Florence Nightingale Foundation Chair of Clinical Nursing Practice‚ London South Bank University and University College :London Hospitals Plan Types of dignity • Human dignity: the dignity that all humans have and cannot be taken away • Social dignity: experienced through interaction - dignity-of-self and dignity-inrelation (Jacobson 2007) • So for people with dementia: • We must acknowledge and respect their human

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    Planning The planning phase of the nursing process is when you will decide which care measures are appropriate for your patient. Each nursing diagnosis listed in your text will have a corresponding list of interventions and rationales. Planning care involves carefully reading though each listed intervention and asking yourself if that intervention can or should be carried out with your patient. For example‚ an intervention listed underImpaired Gas Exchange reads as follows: “If the patient

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    Essentials of Planning and Managing by Objectives OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Understand what managerial planning is and why it is important. 2. Identify and analyze the various types of plans and show how they relate to one another. 3. Outline and discuss the logical steps in planning and see how these steps are essentially a rational approach to setting objectives and selecting the means of reaching them. 4. Explain the nature of objectives. 5. Describe

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    The Effects of Alzheimer’s and Dementia on the Brain My friend and her family are currently through a trying time now. Her grandfather does not know who she is; He is combative and confused‚ it hurts them to see him like this‚ he is not himself. Her father does not recognize his own father (Davis). This is Dementia. It does not only affect the patient‚ it affects the people around him. The question is how does Dementia and Alzheimer’s affect the brain? In 1999 the number of 4 million with Alzheimer’s

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    Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life( http://www.alz.org/what-is-dementia.asp) .The most commonly heard of form of dementia is alzheimers desease. And although this makes sense‚ considering it is the most common form‚ affecting around 5.4 million Americans (http://www.alz.org/facts/)‚ there are other forms that deserve to be recognized. The second and third most common forms of dementia in America are Vascular Dementia and Lewy Body

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    365 Understand the process and experience of Dementia 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome The dementia syndrome is caused by combination of conditions such as specific diseases like Alzheimer’s‚ Parkinson’s or motor neurone disease. It can also be caused by having stroke and prolonged alcohol abuse. 1.2 Describe the types of memory impairment commonly experienced by individuals with dementia frontal lobe – The person may have difficulty thinking clearly‚ struggle with forming

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    extensive training to their “partners” or “baristas” in order to provide customers with the most optimal‚ personalized experience. Starbucks trains their employees on both hard and soft skills‚ allowing them to ensure product quality and also provide the best service possible. Lastly‚ Starbucks’ ability to

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    and activity level‚ individuals living with dementia are highly susceptible to delirium (Wass‚ et al.‚ 2008). However‚ delirium in many has a tendency to go unrecognized because it shares many of the same symptoms as dementia. In telling the difference‚ dementia features changes in memory and intellect that are slowly progressing and evident over months or years; whereas‚ delirium symptoms tend to be more abrupt in confusion and take on more sudden changes in a person’s dementia. Over the period of

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    function abnormalities‚ and vitamin B12 deficiency. Alzheimer’s Dementia is caused by a build-up of proteins which the body no longer breaks down and this affects the transmission of signals. 1.2Memory loss can be defines in different ways. Memory loss can be the inability to retrieve information from the long-term memory (usually happening when the person is distracted or not fully concentrating when the memory is formed)‚ when the new memories replace the old memories stored in brain (experienced

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    Diagnosing Dementia Did you ever think how does the doctor diagnose dementia? Or how does the doctor decide that the person suffers from dementia or not? Previously the doctors thought that there is no specific test can make them decide if the patient has dementia or not‚ but nowadays they discoverd a specific diagnose and they classify it into two types. Diagnosis components is an information about the patient and his family and friends. The purpose of a diagnosis is to eradicate any other possible

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