Student Learning None Estimated time 1-2 hours Engage Ask the students what they are motivated by: Money? Friends? Being accepted by peers? What else? Key Points I. NEEDS – a lack of something required or desired. Needs motivate us to act! Maslow defined a Hierarchy of Human Needs that stated that the lower needs must be met before an individual can strive to meet higher needs. A. PHYSIOLOGICAL -- necessary for life; unmet‚ these needs lead to death 1. food 2. water 3. oxygen 4. sleep
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Lawrence Kohlberg‚ a famous psychologist‚ developed a theory which entailed six stages of moral development. The aim of his theory is to allow individuals to be characterised into one of the stages‚ based upon their moral & ethical well-being. Life experiences usually allow further development‚ thus moving the individual to advance to higher stages. On the other hand‚ Abraham Maslow developed a different theory based on human ’s most basic needs which is represented in a pyramid type figure containing
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Thank you‚ Elaine‚ for explaining the social and economic impacts of dementia. Moving on‚ are the causes of dementia. The first cause is the genetic mutation. Dementia is a chronic and progressive disease. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. Its genetic causes are mutations and polymorphisms‚ which are the variations in deoxyribonucleic acid sequences‚ in three genes‚ including presenilin 1‚ presenilin 2 and amyloid precursor protein. Using this picture to explain. This is
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and Social Care (Adults) for England (QCF) Assignment 51: Unit 51: Understand and Enable Interaction and Communication with 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
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Advocacy for Seniors with Dementia/Alzheimer’s Jeri Fletcher BSHS/441 May 23‚ 2013 Deborah Cujino-Deras Advocacy for Seniors with Dementia/Alzheimer’s Advocacy is defined as a person who advocates on the behalf of an individual or a group. The advocate provides the client support at helping the client resolve issues that affects his or hers daily life (Barsky‚ 2007). Advocating for seniors with Alzheimer’s that face issues with their‚ health and overall wellbeing. This disease threatens
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King Lear and Dementia: A Physical and Emotion Struggle The opening scene of King Lear begins to show the unhealthy state that King Lear is in‚ when it portrays Lear separating his kingdom and giving it to his daughters based on how much they love him. Lear bans his most prized daughter‚ Cordelia from the kingdom and leaves her with nothing only because she was honest with her response‚ which begins to show his state of senselessness. Lear demonstrates his mental illness throughout various scenes
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Alzheimer’s and dementia can affect anyone‚ regardless of their intellectual capabilities or physical prowess. At Memory Care Home Solutions in Saint Louis‚ MO‚ the compassionate staff knows how challenging it is for families to watch their loved ones experience the debilitating effects of diseases that affect cognitive function. Pat Summitt and Muhammad Ali were just two of the tens of millions of Americans who suffer from Alzheimer’s or dementia‚ but their stories are inspirational to all. Pat
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medical record indicates that her onset of Alzheimer’s dementia started 8 years ago. She has now progressed in her dementia to been a Fast 7E. She has had multiple hospitalizations for recurrent pneumonia and UTI’s. She was recently discharge from hospice due to a prognosis of greater than 6 months. At today’s visit she is accompanied by her husband and private caregiver. She is alert and nonverbal. She is a poor historian due to her advanced dementia. The husband reports that she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
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Dementia is a horrible disease that affects the elderly population. I am currently the caregiver to my mother- in -law who has dementia‚ currently I had to place her in a long term care (LTC) facility and every day I wonder if it was the right thing to do‚ or if I could have prolonged the inevitable. I chose to explore this population and how case management (CM) interventions would have delayed placement. The goal was to determine through interventions if CM support to caregivers‚ could delay placement
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Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) occurs in the brain and is considered one of the most common dementias. This condition is a rare disease in which doctors find hard to diagnose because it is so similar to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. It is most commonly diagnosed to males that are over the age of sixty and or either have family members with LBD or Parkinson’s. “LBD a rare disease that affects an estimated 1.4 million in the United States” (Lbda). After this disease is diagnosed the patients do not
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