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    Geriatric Dementia

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    GERIATRIC DEMENTIA Dementia has an originally meaning of madness “a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person‚ beyond what might be expected from normal aging.” Although dementia has always been somewhat common‚ it has become even more common among the elderly in recent history. Dementia is one of the most serious disorders affecting the elderly. The prevalence of dementia increases rapidly with age. The prevalence of dementia has been difficult to determine

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    Understand the nutritional needs that are unique to individuals with dementia 1.1 - Describe how cognitive functional and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating drinking and nutrition: Cognitive: if cognitive ability is impaired a patient could forget to eat‚ or think they aren’t being fed at all as well as forgetting to drink etc‚ they may also leave cookers or other hot things on as they have forgotten they have put them on‚ Functional: They may not be able to feed

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    Dissertation - Dementia

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    Contents Action Plan Time Table Page 2 Weekly Action Plan Page 3 – 7 Plan Structure Page 8 Provisional List of Resources Page 9 Dissertation Page 10 – 27 References Page 28 – 30 Presentation

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    365 Dementia

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    |use tape counter numbers | | | |Date |1) Compare a person-centred approach with a non person-centred approach to dementia care. You may record | | | | |your answers in the table provided. | | | | |

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    communication with individuals who have dementia: Understand the factors that can affect interactions and communication of individuals with dementia: 1.1: Explain how different forms of dementia may affect the way an individual communicates: Forms of dementia are all different therefore the individuals will be affected in different ways when it comes to communication‚ for example; one individual may find it difficult to express their words where as another individual may speak more fluently

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    anything. On one hand‚ unification of the states would make this land stronger as a nation and more organized‚ but with the proposed president in place‚ it seems as if we are leaning more towards our monarchical roots. Without a bill of rights‚ our individual rights are threatened‚ but they did say that the Constitution could be

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    Dementia in UK

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    are over 17‚000 younger people with dementia in the UK. There are over 25‚000 people with dementia from black and minority ethnic groupsin the UK. There will be over a million people with dementia by 2021. Two thirds of people with dementia are women. The proportion of people with dementia doubles for every 5 year age group. One third of people over 95 have dementia. 60‚000 deaths a year are directly attributable to dementia. Delaying the onset of dementia by 5 years would reduce deaths directly

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    Dementia Care

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    EIGHT CAREGIVING MAXIMS FOR DEALING WITH PERPLEXING BEHAVIOURS Don’t try and stop people with dementia from doing something just because it isn’t being done “properly”. Give them time to do things in their own way at their own pace. People with dementia understand far more than they are ever given credit for. Take care what is said in their presence and don’t exclude them from conversations or decisions. Bossiness is Just Not On. It’s very easy to confuse “caring” with “controlling” and nothing

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    Benefits Of Dementia

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    In the modern world‚ increasing the understanding of dementia would be beneficial to most globally. Reasons why education of dementia is important will be discussed‚ whilst looking at the effects of dementia on health‚ costs and ageing population globally. Dementia is a type of health disorder that has a variety of effects. It results from diseases or injuries that relate to the brain (Whitman‚ 2009). The result is always a persistent or a chronic problem with the normal functioning of the mental

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    Dementia Awareness

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    2015 Unit 13 Dementia Awareness 1. Understand what dementia is 1.1 Explain what mean by the term "dementia" The word dementia describes a set of symptoms that may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking‚ problem-solving or language. Dementia is caused when the brain is damaged by diseases‚ such as Alzheimer ’s disease or a series of strokes. 1.2 Describe the key functions of the brain that are - affected by dementia The main areas of the brain that are affected by dementia in terms of

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