BU917 Prof. Brenda Warr Ethical Issues in HIM Question 1 – How can medical identity theft affect patient safety? Medical identity theft is when someone steals your personal information (like your name‚ social security number‚ or Medicare number) to obtain medical care‚ buy drugs‚ or submit fake billings to Medicare in your name. This definition alone is enough to explain how the safety of a patient can be affected if their medical identity is stolen. Having the name and/ or social
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UNDERSTANDING DEMENTIA INTRODUCTION Dementia is a progressive illness which occurs when the brain is damaged by disorders and diseases such as Alzheimer ’s disease‚ Huntington ’s disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) or a series of strokes. The term dementia is not the actual disease in its own right but is the collective term used to describe the group of related symptoms caused by the gradual death of brain cells. These symptoms include memory loss‚ problems with reasoning‚ perception‚
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Dementia Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning. This includes thinking‚ remembering and reasoning. Memory loss is usually accompanied by at least one of the following symptoms: impaired movement‚ difficulty with language and the inability to plan and initiate appropriate social behavior. Dementia ranges in severity from mild problems in functioning to the most severe stage of complete dependence. There are several types of dementia. The most common form of dementia
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Any aspect of a childâ€TMs development can be affected by disability. Physical disability A physical disability affects the mobility of children and young people and impacts their lifestyle‚ education and development throughout their life. In some cases a physical disability may involve other restrictions such as special dietary requirements or the need to use medical or adapted equipment. Physical disabilities and health conditions can be classified as congenital or acquired. Congenital conditions
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Can Technology Affect Ethics and Culture? Jeremiah Johnson TEC/401 Linda Poole November 16‚ 2006 Can Technology Affect Ethics and Culture? In today ’s work environment‚ workers are expected to know more than ever before. With the growing of technology comes more knowledge that end-users must know‚ so it is important for workers not to be distracted by unethical practices. However‚ with technology also comes a more defined sense of communication‚ which can be good or bad. This improved communication
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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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Task a 103 1. Explain how individuals with dementia may communicate through their behaviour. Dementia sufferers communicate in many different ways. They may not be able to speak but they can communicate non-verbally with positive or negative behaviour. They can also communicate using body language and through posture. One service user who was blind was hard to settle‚ because he couldn’t see it was hard to communicate‚ he was unable to express himself verbally and he was very anxious and
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Opening July 3 at New Century Theatre: in acclaimed writer Sarah Treem’s The How and the Why‚ a meeting between two women evolves into an intellectual‚ professional and personal showdown. New in Insight: What happens when you “interview” a group of testate amoebae after they’ve been filmed in a Smith professor’s lab? It turns out that they’re prepared to reveal quite a bit about themselves. Smith has been awarded a three-year grant for a pilot teaching program aimed at increasing the number
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Understand the neurology of dementia. 1.1 The causes of dementia are not yet fully understood but we do know that it is a deteriotation in mental functions which include memory‚ speach‚ judgement and orientation.The brain is a complex organ with over 100 billion cells. In dementia some of these cells stop working properly. The part of the brain this occurs in will affect how the person communicates‚ thinks‚ feels and remembers. Dementia can start in people well before the age of 65 this is called
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How does the temperature of water affect how fast sugar can dissolve? Predict We will do three different tests‚ dissolving the water in boiling‚ warm and cool water. The sugar in the boiling water will dissolve the fastest. The sugar added to the cool water will dissolve the slowest. Reason According to the state of matter theory‚ the particles in a gas move faster than in a liquid‚ which I will use to infer that the hotter the water is and closer to a gas‚ the faster the particles move. Therefore
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