Understand the process and experience of dementia. 1. Understand the neurology of dementia. 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome. The Cambridge dictionary describes dementia as “ medical condition that affects especially old people‚ causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse‚ leading to confused behaviour”. Basically dementia is a serious deterioration in mental functions such as memory‚ language‚ orientation and judgement. This illness however
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Dementia is a progressive disorder that will affect how you’re brain functions and particularly your ability to remember‚ think and reason. Dementia usually affects older people and are approximately 820‚000 people in the UK with the disorder‚ and around 15‚000 are under the age of 65. If the dementia is recognised early enough that are a lot of things that you can be done to make the quality of life better. In a lot of dementia cases the symptoms and quality of life will progress and get worse over
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When I first think about Dementia and Alzheimer’s‚ I typically think that these terms relate more to the elderly. What really is the difference between the two? According to our text‚ dementia is a permanent loss of mental ability that is serious enough to impair daily living tasks. People who have one of the many conditions that produce dementia experience problems in memory‚ reasoning‚ and planning that dramatically affect their behavior. Alzheimer’s disease is a mild cognitive impairment which
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Understand the process and experience of dementia 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome Dementia is a term describing a wide range of symptoms associated with the decline of the memory‚ or other cognitive or sensorial skills that reduce a person’s ability to perform day by day activities. This term refers to Alzheimer disease‚ Vascular dementia‚ Dementia with Lewy bodies‚ Parkinson’s disease‚ Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease‚ Huntington’s disease in the same time. What causes this range
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NVQ Diploma Forums ... Help i’m really stuck on 302 1.3 outline how other health and emotional conditions may affect the nutritional needs of an individual with dementia. diploma level 3 | Health and Social Care NVQ Diploma ... 5 posts 30 Jun 2012 Dementia and nutrition 2 posts 23 Jun 2012 Nutrition and dementia 1 post 23 Jun 2012 More results from www.wandptraining.co.uk Understand and Meet the Nutrition Requirements of Individuals with ... www
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365 Understand the process and experience of Dementia 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome The dementia syndrome is caused by combination of conditions such as specific diseases like Alzheimer’s‚ Parkinson’s or motor neurone disease. It can also be caused by having stroke and prolonged alcohol abuse. 1.2 Describe the types of memory impairment commonly experienced by individuals with dementia frontal lobe – The person may have difficulty thinking clearly‚ struggle with forming
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Dementia is the term used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected (damaged) by certain diseases and conditions (e.g. a stroke)‚ including Alzheimer’s disease. As this is a progressive disease‚ symptoms can be slowed down‚ but not cured and will always‚ gradually get worse. Regardless of the cause of the dementia‚ as it is the brain cells that are dying‚ some of the person’s abilities and functions of day to day life will progressively become more difficult. There are five
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Running head: MSE and Dementia Multi-Sensory Environments and Dementia: Abstract This paper addresses the concern for the wellbeing of patients with dementia and the struggle to find a new or alternative and effective treatment. The topic‚ Multi-sensory environments and dementia‚ was selected for the challenge it presented‚ and the conviction that the writer has for the rights of geriatric psychiatric patients. Along with personal conviction‚ this topic was chosen because of the intrigue
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Vascular Dementia Vascular dementia is a common cause of dementia in the elderly. Dementia is a condition that affects the brain and causes people to not think well or act normally. Vascular dementia is one type of dementia. It occurs when blood clots block small blood vessels in the brain and destroy brain tissue. Likely risk factors are high blood pressure and advanced age. This disease can cause stroke‚ migraine-like headaches‚ and psychiatric disturbances. SYMPTOMS Confusion. Problems
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nutritional requirements of individuals with dementia Outcome 1 Understand the nutritional needs that are unique to individuals with dementia. 1.Cognitive means the affect that dementia has on thinking skills eg memory‚ understanding etc. Functional is about the ability to perform actions such as feeding themselves. Emotional is about how they feel and react eg confusion can cause distress and aggression. As dementia progresses‚ eating and drinking can become difficult for some
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