Unit 49 – Understand and Meet the nutritional needs of individuals with Dementia 1.1 People with Dementia will decline and their levels of functioning will deteriorate and will not be able to manage many tasks like preparing food‚ shopping‚ cleaning‚ washing‚ bathing and eating‚ this will gradually become worse. Cognitive changes will affect their ability to communicate‚ they will find it hard to listen‚ remember and interact with people and this will affect their diet. They many also find they
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Page 1 Assessment Criteria- Unit 142 Develop health and safety risk management policies‚ procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings. Outcome 1 – 1.1/1.2 Legislation is a law that has been passed by a legislative body such as parliament. The legislation framework is one that is used by all professionals when working with or alongside children and families. All settings must have policies and procedures in place. A policy complies with the law and can
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Clinical History Comprehensive: Nursing Home‚ dementia‚ diarrhea DOB: 3-17-13 March 14‚ 1995 ANNUAL H&P DICTATION – Completed/Dictated 3-9-95 CODE STATUS: DNR/DNI This resident is an 81-year-old gentleman who is pleasant and cooperative but not a good historian due to his dementia. Chief complaint: Resident has been having diarrhea according to his records for the past week‚ since the 24th of February. He has been having two to three large loose brown stools per day primarily
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Code of Practise The purpose of Code of Practise is a written document that is an agreement method of working and dealing with situations; the Code of Practise is for care workers‚ like the GP‚ to have a good standard for good practise in care settings for patients; the Codes of Practise is a method to complete the rules‚ principals and standards for a care worker‚ like a GP‚ when talking to a client during an appointment. However‚ if a care worker manages to break the Code of Practise they will
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Task A Fact sheet 1A) A definition of the term dementia. Dementia is a progressive disease of the brain where the brain is damaged which is terminal ‚ depending on which part of the brain is affected is to what type of dementia it is ‚ examples are Alzheimer’s ‚ Picks ‚ vascular and Parkinson’s disease ‚ these conditions can affect every aspects of the person’s life ‚ affecting short term memory ‚ mobility ‚ sight and how thoughts are processed ‚ and how the person views the world themselves
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------------------------------------------------- straining to hear and fend off dementia [Document subtitle] February 25‚ 2013 PSY 4456 February 25‚ 2013 PSY 4456 Dr. Milligan PSY 4456 February 25‚ 2013 Straining to Hear and Fend Off Dementia The article I chose was written by Kathrine Bouton. One of many people who suffer with hearing lost‚ but unfortunately Katherine’s started at the age of thirty years old. She tells a story about attending a fun-raiser for a magazine
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Dementia is a type of disorder that affects the central nervous system. It’s not a disease itself but a group of symptoms that characterize disease and conditions. It’s commonly defined as a decline in intellectual functioning that is severe enough to interfere with the ability to perform routine activities. It causes significant loss of intellectual abilities‚ such as memory capacity‚ severe enough to interfere with social or occupational functioning. Dementia‘s a general term that also includes
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t e x 4 8 ( 2 0 1 2 ) 4 2 9 e4 4 6 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cortex Research report Working memory‚ attention‚ and executive function in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia Cheryl L. Stopford*‚ Jennifer C. Thompson‚ David Neary‚ Anna M.T. Richardson and Julie S. Snowden Cerebral Function Unit‚ Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre‚ Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Clinical Neurosciences Research Group‚ University
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MOUNTAIN RANGES By length * Mid-ocean ridge - 65‚000 km (40‚389 mi)[1] * Andes - over 7‚000 km (4‚350 mi) * Rocky Mountains - 4‚800 km (2‚983 mi) * Himalayas - approximately 3‚800 km (2‚361 mi)[citation needed] * Great Dividing Range - 3‚700 km (2‚299 mi) * Transantarctic Mountains - 3‚500 km (2‚175 mi) By Continent Asia * * Alborz (Iran) * Al Hajar Mountains (Oman‚ UAE) * Altai Mountains (Russia‚ China‚ Mongolia‚ Kazakhstan) * Annamite Range (Laos‚ Vietnam)
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1 Explain what is meant by the term ‘dementia’ Learner answer 1 dementia is not a disease or illness its an overall term which describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memories or a persons other mental abilities which in turn can reduce a persons ability to perform everyday tasks. 2a Incorporating your assessment pack and using the diagram as a guide‚ describe the key functions of the brain that can be affected by dementia. a) Name area 1 of the brain and its key function
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