Frontotemporal dementia is a common and severe neurodegenerative disorder and is estimated to account for 20% of cases of degenerative dementia with presenile onset. People with Frontotemporal dementia usually affect people in the age range of 35–75‚ and head trauma is identified as a risk factor‚ there is an increased positive family history. There is a 2.5 times increased risk due a positive association with Thyroid disease and FTD. (Weder‚ Aziz‚ Wilkins‚ & Tampi‚ 2007) People with Frontotemporal
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These essential chemicals are called nutrients. You need nutrients for normal growth and development‚ for maintaining cells and tissues‚ for fuel to do physical and metabolic work‚ and for regulating the hundreds of thousands of body processes that go on inside you every second of everyday. Further‚ food must provide these nutrients; the body either cannot make these essential nutrients or cannot make enough of them (Bredbenner‚ 2011). Nutritional assessment can be helpful in improving one’s health
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CT242 Understand the Process and Experience of Dementia Gerry Podd answers 1. Understand the neurology of dementia 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome? Fixed cognitive impairments are due to a single event. Traumatic brain injury may cause generalized damage to the white matter of the brain or localized damages. A temporary reduction in the supply of blood and oxygen to the brain may lead to this type of dementia. A stroke or brain infection can also be the cause of dementia. Excessive
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living organisms‚ including the behavior. Researchers in “Finding Dementia in Primary Care: The Results of a Clinical Demonstration Project‚” looked at the behavior of several Veterans‚ 70 and older‚ to find ways to diagnosis them with dementia and cognitive impairment. The Veterans went through screening processes to help primary care physicians learn to diagnosis dementia and cognitive impairment in earlier stages. Observation Dementia is a disease that is often overlooked. Primary care physicians
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Legislation and frameworks Legislation Care Standards Act 2000 This legislation affects and supports people with dementia as it has different laws. Some of these laws are things like helping people to wash and dress themselves. This helps people with dementia‚ as when it becomes advanced they lose their fine motor skills and they find it difficult to do simple tasks like fasten buttons and hold things‚ so it also makes it hard for them to wash. They have carers that will do this for them and
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4.2 UNDERSTAND MARKET TARGETING Market targeting is a process of identifying groups of consumers who are highly likely to purchase a specific good or service. Businesses of all sizes engage are some form of this marketing essential as part of their efforts to secure and maintain customers. 4.3.1 DEFINE MARKET TARGETING Target Marketing – the process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter. After evaluating different
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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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Full Length Research Paper Nutritional potential of two leafy vegetables: Moringa oleifera and Ipomoea batatas leaves Ibok Oduro‚ W. O. Ellis and Deborah Owusu* Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology‚ Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology‚ Kumasi- Ghana. Accepted 30 January‚ 2008 Levels of some nutrients in Moringa oleifera leaves as well as seven varieties of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) leaves were determined using standard analytical methods. Crude protein ranged from
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that they have Alzheimer’s or some form of dementia it can be very challenging. When dealing with one of these diseases they both have some sort of memory lost. When a person is diagnosed with dementia‚ they are being diagnosed with a set of symptoms. Another difference is that Alzheimer’s is not a reversible disease. It is very important for a MA to know the difference when dealing with Alzheimer’s and dementia. A person who is being diagnosed with dementia they are being diagnosed with a set of
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Dementia is the term used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected (damaged) by certain diseases and conditions (e.g. a stroke)‚ including Alzheimer’s disease. As this is a progressive disease‚ symptoms can be slowed down‚ but not cured and will always‚ gradually get worse. Regardless of the cause of the dementia‚ as it is the brain cells that are dying‚ some of the person’s abilities and functions of day to day life will progressively become more difficult. There are five
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