Legislation and frameworks Legislation Care Standards Act 2000 This legislation affects and supports people with dementia as it has different laws. Some of these laws are things like helping people to wash and dress themselves. This helps people with dementia‚ as when it becomes advanced they lose their fine motor skills and they find it difficult to do simple tasks like fasten buttons and hold things‚ so it also makes it hard for them to wash. They have carers that will do this for them and
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UNIT 365 UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS AND EXPERIENCE OF DEMENTIA 1.UNDERSTAND THE NEUROLOGY OF DEMENTIA 1.1Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome. Dementia is a word used to describe a group of symptoms including memory loss‚ confusion ‚ mood changes‚ and difficulty with day-to -day task. There are many causes of dementia wit Alzhaimer`s the most common. Alzhaimer`s disease-around 500.000 people in the UK have Alzhaimer`s.Scientists know that during Alzhaimer`s two abnormal proteins build
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Research explain the following different manifestations of dementia: Huntington’s disease: Huntington’s disease is a progressive brain disorder caused by a single defective gene on chromosome 4 — one of the 23 human chromosomes that carry a person’s entire genetic code. This defect is "dominant‚" meaning that anyone who inherits it from a parent with Huntington’s will eventually develop the disease. The disorder is named for George Huntington‚ the physician who first described it in the late
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533.3 - Understand how dementia care must be underpinned by a person centred approach 3.1 - Compare a person-centred and a non-person-centred approach to dementia care: Person centred care is is a method of providing care to people in which the individual as a unique person is emphasised‚ rather than focusing on the disease‚ its expected symptoms and challenges‚ and the lost abilities of the person. Person centred care explains that dementia is only a disease condition that affects the brain‚ but
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1Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells and in many ways‚ from alcoholism‚ brain injury‚ drug abuse‚ side effects to medications‚ depression‚ age‚ thyroid function abnormalities‚ and vitamin B12 deficiency. Alzheimer’s Dementia is caused by a build-up of proteins which the body no longer breaks down and this affects the transmission of signals. 1.2Memory loss can be defines in different ways. Memory loss can be the inability to retrieve information from the long-term memory (usually happening
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Alzheimer’s and Dementia really the same thing? Aysha Culliver December 13‚ 2012 5th Period Woodward Purpose I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer’s is not the person they knew. I wander to myself. Who are they then? –Bob DeMarco. What is Alzheimer ’s disease? Alzheimer ’s disease is a disease that slowly and little by little destroys brain cells. It is neither transmittable nor contagious‚ but is the single most common cause of dementia. A condition that
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Causes of Falls in People with Dementia People with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia tend to be at high risk of falling. They are more than three times likely to fracture their hip when they fall‚ which leads to surgery and immobility. The death rate for those with Alzheimers is also increased. Therefore‚ fall prevention for people with dementia is critical. One of the ways to reduce the amount of falls for those with Alzheimers is to find out why they fall. If we can find out why people
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”The Body” is a novella (definition: a written‚ fictional and prose narrative) written by Stephen King. Stephen King was born into a poor family in Portland‚ Maine‚ in the USA in 1947. He eventually got into university because he studied so hard and started writing for the college newspaper‚ as well as supporting the movement against the Vietnam War. He married and started a family‚ taking a teaching job. Although‚ he still wrote short stories for magazines and worked at making novels. The novel
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It’s very important for a medical assistant to know the difference between Alzheimer and dementia. Also‚ it’s very important to educate yourself and do research on Alzheimer and dementia.They both based on memory loss that changes an individual’s daily life. But Alzheimer and dementia are different. Dementia are caused by strokes. Alzheimer is unknown cause the patient wouldn’t know about. Both dementia and Alzheimer is based on memory loss that changes an individuals daily life. Like with most
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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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