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    1.1 Why Do People Communicate? People communicate in many different ways and also for many different reasons. There are a wide variety of ways in which people communicate however there are specific reasons as to why each individual does. For example: to give information to another individual to receive information from another individual to give instructions to another individual to retrieve information from another individual to discuss certain situations among individual(s) to make individuals

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    ALL ABOUT DEMENTIA

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    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

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    autobiographical memory? Illustrate your answer with some examples from research “Autobiographical memory is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual’s life‚ based on a combination of episodic and semantic memory” (Williams‚ H. L.‚ Conway‚ M. A.‚ & Cohen‚ G. 2008). As you can see from this definition‚ autobiographical memory is a very broad topic when it comes down to memory. Some textbooks describe autobiographical memory to be just another name for episodic memory. In general

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    Music therapy in care for dementia Dementia is an extremely common disease among the elderly‚ with 4 million Americans currently suffering from the Alzheimer’s type alone. Figures show that 3% of people between the ages of 65-74 suffer from the disease‚ rapidly increasing to 19% for the 75-84 age bracket‚ and as high as 47% for the over 85s. Therefore‚ it is easy to see why Dementia is such a large part of many people’s lives‚ whether they are suffering from the condition themselves‚ or have

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    Dementia Case Study

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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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    Related text to whose life is it anyway? – Power and the individual What ideas of power are represented in “whose life is it anyway” and the related texted material you have chosen and how does the related text link to the prescribe text? There are many ideas and reasons why My Sisters keeper and whose life is it anyway have similar relations to the power and the individual. For one the battle of individual rights‚ Both Anna and Ken fight for their individual rights to their Body and life. Ken

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    Individuals who Have Dementia Learning Outcome1 Understand the factors that can affect interaction and communication of individuals with dementia 1.1 Explain how different forms of dementia may affect the way an individual communicates Visual perception; if a carer isn’t at the client’s level or facing away from the client‚ the client may not be able to determine what the carer is trying to communicate‚ also visual hallucinations; client may see something that isn’t

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    Depression

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    Depression is not only a state of being sad‚ it is a disease that conquers the ability to feel emotion‚ whether good or bad‚ whatsoever. Depression not only involves the mind‚ it also involves the body and thoughts. In different cultures some complain of excessive headaches and extreme pain and this is identified as depression‚ moderate or otherwise. This disease can be passed down through genes or can follow external events or can be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Depression affects

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    Some people may say that being defiant is a part of being human. Yet‚ why toddlers are so good at being defiant at such an early age? There are numerous reasons why a toddler may be defiant. From testing limits‚ change in their lives‚ even to having a medical issue. On the other hand‚ there are even more ways for adults to help a toddler get through their defiant behaviors. Reasons Why Toddlers May Be Defiant Testing limits Toddlers are learning how to be independent and feel that they

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    Memory

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    MEMORY- THE INTERFERENCE THEORY FIZZA LAKHANI INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY‚ BAHRIA UNIVERSITY‚ KARACHI. BS-4 Abstract The aim of this study was to observe the interference theory on different age groups. It was assumed that the recalling of 1st list will be affected by interference of another list‚ teenagers will recall more nonsense syllables than adults and also participants who performed experiments with distractions will have less correct responses than those who conducted without

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