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
Premium Alzheimer's disease Dementia Neurology
years framework. 1.1 Write about how one example of an activity/ experience that provides an explanation of how it links with the areas of learning: The activity I have chosen to write about is ‘hopscotch’. Hopscotch links to two of the prime areas and one of the specific areas: Prime area: Physical development – one of the reasons why hopscotch links to physical development includes that the child has to leap in the activity. As the game goes on‚ the children may have to leap over two or more spaces
Premium Developmental psychology Education Learning
the best stories in the Anthology that had examples of human nature are How it Feels to be Colored Me‚ by Zora Hurston‚ The Necklace‚ by Guy de Maupassant‚ and The Rose that Grew from Concrete‚ by Tupac Shakur. These stories show how humans have different characteristics. These characteristics are determination‚ intolerance‚ and the need to have more than what they have. Zora Hurston‚ in How it Feels to be Colored Me shows how humans can be extremely intolerant. “Someone is always at
Premium Human Nature Religion
TDA 3.3 3.2 Explain how social organisation and relationships may affect the learning process Social organisation and relationships include for example: learner grouping; group development; group dynamics and the way how adults interact and respond to learners. Within the‚ school children are grouped in several ways‚ e.g. in ability groups‚ in nurture groups‚ SEN groups and in EAL groups. At my school‚ in the classroom‚ children are set into ability groups in order to give them the best learning
Premium Education Learning Teacher
10‚ 2012 How It Feels to Be Colored Me‚ by Zora Hurston In the article How It feels to Be Colored Me‚ Zora Hurston describes her experiences being colored. She lived in a prominently colored town in Florida up until she was thirteen and she lived a great life. Everyone knew her; she was “their” Zora. Then‚ her mother passed away and Hurston was shipped off to boarding school. This‚ she said was the first time she became colored. Now‚ when I first read this article I wondered how she could remember
Premium African American Race Zora Neale Hurston
Dementia is a debilitating mental illness that requires costly medical care. Those who suffer this condition can find it difficult or even impossible to perform basic living tasks such as feeding‚ dressing or cleaning after themselves; therefore care must be provided to them at all times. As one can imagine‚ the story is no different behind bars. Because the inmate- elderly population has grown exponentially dating back to the 1970’s when laws favored incarceration over rehabilitation‚ the average
Premium Health care Patient Medicine
In the article‚ the author expresses how music evokes memories‚ feelings‚ and sensations. Music therapy has been found to be effective for patients with dementia. Schaeffer explains that music shares a close relationship with your unconscious emotions and the emotions are activated by musical movement. The feelings are so strong that they are meaningful even if the patient cannot remember who they are. Music therapy improves wellbeing in the following areas: memory recall‚ vocal fluency‚ positive
Premium Psychology Music Music therapy
reflected from three famous black authors’ works we’ve learned this semester: < Selection from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave> by Frederick Douglass‚ <The Negro Speaks of Rivers> by Langston Hughes‚ and <How It Feels to Be Colored Me> by Zora Neal Hurston. Then we will carry on a comparison between the different recognitions of the relationships from the three works by the three black writers. We will analyze it in aspects of the authors’ era‚ life background
Premium Race Black people Racism
APPROACH It is a term used when describing good dementia care and also best practice in advocacy. It recognises a person’s individuality‚ their personal history and personality. It seeks to understand the world from the individual’s perspective. When a person behaves in a way that is difficult‚ aggressive or inappropriate it is the role of others to try to understand why the person is behaving in that way‚ especially if they are unable to explain this themselves. Knowing their past history‚ relationships
Premium Individual Person Social work
Unit 50: Enable rights and choices of individuals with dementia whilst minimising risks Learning Outcome 1: Understand key legislation and agreed ways of working that support the fulfilment of rights and choices of individuals with dementia while minimising risk of harm 1.1 What is the impact of the Mental Health Act‚ and the Mental Incapacity Act (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards) on individuals who are living with the experience of dementia; with regards to minimising the risks of harm
Premium Nursing Health care Nurse