Rights and Choices in dementia care Explain the impact of key legislation that relates to fulfilment of rights and choices and the minimising of risk of harm for an INDIVIDUAL with dementia Key Legislations was brought in to protect the rights and choices of residents with or without dementia‚ while ensuring the risk of harm is minimised these legislations are: Human Rights act 1998 Mental capacity act 2005- Adults with incapacity act 2000 and 2007 Mental health act 2007 Disability discrimination
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Lecture How do we explain behavior Behaviour generally refers to actions or reactions (an activity or response of some kind) of an object or organism usually in relation to the environment or surrounding world of stimuli. Behaviour can be conscious or unconscious‚ overt or covert‚ voluntary or involuntary‚ sometimes it can be common‚ unusual‚ acceptable‚ or outside acceptable limits. The acceptability of behavior is evaluated relative to social norms and regulated by various means of social control
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Running head: DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease Dementia What is Dementia? Dementia is the basic term for loss of memory‚ and other mental abilities severe enough to interfere with everyday living. How many types of dementia are there? There are seven. And they are Alzheimer’s disease which is the most common type of this disease. But there are several other forms of dementia. Including Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease‚ this is rare‚ degenerative and invariably
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in chinese traditional medicine the tongue espresses the heart and the heart is as our emotional state and our emotional state is the way we see ourselves and the world this comes from the summation of the nature of our conscious mind choices that become the habits of the self habits thar are a mix of good and bad or perfect and pure and one in the mind of christ or become totally depraved and as said in revelation ev 17:11 And the beast that was‚ and is not‚ even he is the eighth
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How Being a Marine’s Significant Other Affects your Life Out of all the men in the world some girls choose the craziest option and that is to be a marine’s significant other. I’ve been dating my boyfriend who is a marine for about 8 months now and it has been a crazy road of ups and downs‚ happiness and tears‚ and also such a major change that was brought into my life. It is never easy for us women and can have many major affects on our lives both negative and positive. Some major affects are
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Carol Mitchie Sunshine Solutions Learner ID: 5795 There are a number of causes of Dementia‚ they include: Alzheimers - is a physical disease that affects the brain. There are nore than half a million people in the UK with the disease. Alzheimers is progress when a build up of proteins in the brain lead to a loss of connection between the nerve cells. This itself causes the death of these nerve cells and the loss of brain tissue. People with alzheimers also suffer from a shortage of chemicals
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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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knowledge of dementia was old because I have nursed for over thirty years and had not gained recent knowledge in this field‚ only through personal experience. Since 2008 I have worked on a private ward which includes a mixture of medical‚ surgical and palliative clients. Last year through Alzheimer’s WA I undertook the Dementia Champion course. The course provided a dementia file and instructed us on how to educate. The file emphasized that my knowledge base was absent across areas of dementia care including
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A1 Evaluate methods for managing children’s behaviour and how these may affect teaching and learning Any methods used when managing children’s behaviour should be proactive rather than reactive: If a child is‚ being verbally challenging and you engage a conversation and react to the behaviour the matter will escalate‚ being proactive by thinking and assessing the situation before you speak‚ being aware that your body language is positive‚ be calm and talk in a soothing voice‚ let the child know
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Victoria Gill Unit - TDA29 Date 2. Be able to support positive behaviour 2.1 Describe the benefits of encouraging and rewarding positive behaviour: Rewarding positive behaviour comes with many benefits. The main benefit is that it encourages the child to behave in an acceptable way as they will want to receive the rewards for doing so such as stickers‚ or being able to choose a story/activity. With the children behaving in the correct way the atmosphere of the nursery is going to be much more
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