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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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    Description The patient presents with dementia‚ poor posture (her chin close to her chest) and dislikes solids‚ there for has to be assisted to feed and chooses only to consume liquids. Her communication skills are also poor and doesn’t have the capacity to engage in a flowing conversation but has the ability to answer a question using the words ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or by saying individual words. I was given the task of feeding the patient at lunch time as she requires one to one support at meal times

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    could determine a diagnosis without medical training. The four people in the presented scenario diagnosed with Dementia‚ ovarian cancer‚ HIV‚ and a self-inflicted abdominal wound. Person B and C diagnoses were surprising‚ while Person A and D diagnoses are predictable due to additional information given. Person A has Dementia and Person D has a self-inflicted abdominal wound. Dementia tends to affect elderly population and Person A is 88

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    370 understand the diversity of individuals with dementia and the important inclusion 1.1 A) The term diversity means to understand and not showing prejudice‚ valuing the benefits of someone being different from ourselves‚ understanding one’s own beliefs and their effects on others‚ not making assumptions‚ understanding the basics of discrimination like gender‚ race‚ age‚ sexuality‚ disability‚ social class. B) Anti-discriminatory practice means to make sure individuals are treated equally‚ promote

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    of medication to individuals with dementia using a person centred approach. 1.1 There are many forms of medication used to treat symptoms of dementia such as; Pain Killers Anti anxiety drugs Tranquillisers Anti Psychotic Drugs – used to treat challenging and disruptive behaviour such as aggression or agitation. Anti depressants – it is not uncommon for someone with dementia to become depressed this can sometimes make the memory of a person with dementia worse. 1.2 Painkillers are used

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    Unit 4222-237 Dementia awareness (DEM 201) Outcome 1 1. Dementia is not an illness or disease in itself ‚ but is a broad term which describes a range of signs and symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by certain disease and conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia. 2. AREA OF THE BRAIN KEY FUNCTIONING that could be affected by dementia Frontal lobe Movement ‚ emotional behaviour ‚ personality interpretation and feeling Parietal lobe Language ‚ spacial awareness and

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    people experiencing living with dementia and caring for someone with dementia the surveys are designed for people to be able to honest about how they are coping‚ or what services they use and how they help its thought that by delivering your version of events someone may take that information read it and decisions can be made to make improvements in areas that are needed- in an ideal world of course. Figures are showing that there are 850‚000 people living with dementia in the UK‚ by 2050 that figure

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    may have heard about Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Dementia. There’s multiple types of dementia like Vascular‚ Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. This is important to understand between Alzheimer’s and Dementia because most people confuse them for not being the same. The AD and dementia falls under the category having the same cognitive impairment symptom. In fact‚ some people get confused by aging you start forgetting thinking you have dementia. To understand this disease‚ you have to know the

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    happening to my Grandma. She has been diagnosed with vascular dementia and it has been detrimental to her life and her mind‚ and I hate to think about what it will do to her in the future. She is 80 years old and is still able to live alone‚ however her son lives across the road from her. Other than having dementia‚ she is a healthy person. She has always been a caring and loving person that has always taken care of others. Dementia has drastically changed her life. She has always been very caring

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    Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is an umbrella term for two different diagnoses. It is a combination of both Parkinson’s Disease Dementia and Dementia with Lewy Bodys (1). Pathologically it is defined by the presence of alpha synuclein containing Lewy bodies in the brain‚ however their distribution differs from that in Parkinson’s Disease‚ affecting the limbic system and brainstem‚ in contrast to the nigrostriatal and brainstem predominant pattern seen in early Parkinson’s Disease (AA). Clinically‚ the

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