Dementia * Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. Memory loss is an example. Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia. * It’s an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. Explanation: * Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells. This damage interferes with the ability
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to rights and choices of an individuals with Dementia would be to make sure the individual is involved as much as they can with things that involve themselves‚ involve families and carers who know the individual well‚ look at care plans and look at there history of what the like and dislike. Whilst working that relates to individuals rights and choices you must also make sure you stick to and follow all procedures and legislations in place to make sure that the individual is getting the best care possible
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Dementia is the loss of intellectual and social abilities severe enough to interfere with daily functioning. For centuries‚ people called it senility and considered it an inevitable part of aging. It is now known that dementia is not a normal part of the aging process and that it is caused by an underlying condition. People with this condition need special assistance to carry on with their normal lives. This paper will explain some of the social services that are helping to combat this disease and
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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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Dementia is a general term for loss of memory and other mental abilities severe enough to interfere with daily life. It is caused by physical changes in the brain which causes problems with memory‚ reasoning‚ behavior and motor skills. It is also called “Alzheimer’s Disease”. Symptoms of Alzheimer’s slowly worsen over time‚ and the disease is ultimately fatal. It is the most common form of dementia‚ which is defined as a loss of cognitive functioning and behavioral abilities that interferes with
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4222-370] ( Written questions [Outcome 1] Understand the concept of diversity and its relevance to working with individuals who have dementia 1.1- explain what is meant by the terms • diversity The Service Users i deliver care to are all different in many ways.This can be along the dimensions of gender‚ age‚ ethnicity‚ race‚ sexual orientation‚ socio-economic status‚ physical abilities‚ political beliefs‚ religious beliefs or other ideologies. This means that i have to be aware of a person’s
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someone that the individual can talk to‚ being understanding towards those who find it hard to express their feelings but also putting themselves in the individual’s perspective and understanding how they must feel. It is important that carers have a lot of patience and be a compassionate person. People who suffer with dementia find it challenging to do every day activities; everybody suffers differently as there are different stages of dementia. It is important to treat every individual to their specific
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Similarly‚ another intention of assimilation policy was to raise the standard of housing‚ health and education for aboriginal people by allowing them to move into town and cities. Aboriginal people experienced in finding work and housing due to discrimination (Crawford & Tantiprasut 2003‚ p. 42). Segregation (1890-1950) The policies of segregation were brought in under the pretext of protecting the aboriginal population from violence and harassment (Vickers & Issaac 2012). It is also the policy
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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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P2 – Explain the potential effects of five different life factors on the development of an individual Genetics affect who you will grow to be in many ways. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the language of life that is within every living thing‚ genetic instructions that form what we will become. There is still much of the language that scientists don’t understand‚ but after extensive research scientists have found that certain gene codes actually relate to increased chances of developing a cancer or
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