Dementia is usually a progressive debilitating syndrome that changes the person’s life forever. People can have many different ways of coping with the diagnosis of dementia. These emotions can become obstacles that could hinder the patient’s progress in therapy if they are not addressed. It is important that therapists recognize what is dementia‚ the daily challenges their patients and family members might be dealing with when diagnosed with dementia and what skills they‚ as therapists‚ should
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Reflective Essay on Toy Box Leadership (Book by Ron Hunter Jr. & Michael Waddell) This essay will present my views about the leadership lessons discussed in the book I recently read entitled Toy Box Leadership written by Ron Hunter Jr. and Michael Waddell (2008) as part of my learning reflection on the essential socio-cultural and personal competencies discussed in the unit CPD1102. The authors used the toys that we as kids love way back to explain leadership principles that are reflected in
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is important to children’s learning Creative development is important to a child’s learning because it helps them to use their mind and imagination and express their own ideas‚ and through playing with their friends it also helps them to understand that all family’s and cultures can be different. It helps them to make connections in their thinking and the way in which they problem solve‚ by doing things over and over again they reinforce their thinking and learning‚ they develop self-esteem‚
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FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN LEARNING PROCESS Effective teaching does not only entail the successful use of certain instructional strategies and behaviours related to academic achievement‚ it as well includes the ability to determine just when‚ where as well as with whom these strategies and behaviours should be used. Having these considerations in mind‚ effective teaching necessitates high levels of informed as well as reasoned decision-making. Reflective teachers ought to have
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With the help of the Gibbs model for reflection I have written the below reflective essay. I have chosen this model for reflection cause: Firstly it is simple to understand and secondly it follows a very systematic and easy approach. As I began with the module I was quite happy that it has been included in the course‚ as it would help me overcome academic writing skills difficulties. Although‚ initially I did feel that the module would only aim at giving academic support‚ but eventually
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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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Understand and enable communication Different forms of dementia may affect the way an individual communicates. People with alzheimers and most other types of dementia‚often suffer from short-term memory loss.This means that they may be unable to remember events that have just happened or they may repeat a question after just a few minutes.They may forget names or even forget who people are all together.This can cause communication issues as they may be unaware who they are talking to‚forget earlier
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DEMENTIA AWARENESS 3.4 Identify prevelance rates for different types of dementia. Prevelance shows the number of new cases of dementia in a given time period. The well established prevelance rates for dementia in the UK are – 40-64 years - 1 in 1400 65-69 years – 1 in 100 70-79 years - 1 in 25 80+ - 1 in 6 It is estimated that by 2021 there will be one million people with dementia in the UK this is expected to rise to over 1.7 million people with dementia by 2051. A steady rather than
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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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Learning Outcome 1. Children have a strong sense of identity. Jordan is a really sweet and quite boy who is happy to play by himself or alongside his peers. He really enjoys playing with his teachers a lot and I spend a lot of time engaging him in various activities in our classroom. He seems to be quite settled in the Koala Room‚ and he is confident to chose his own play and do his own thing. We are presently working with Jordan to help him develop strategies and skills which enable him to
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