I’ve learned that wonderful things and horrible things will happen in life. In 2011 my grandma began to have a severe case of dementia. This was incredibly hard for me and my family. She was 87 and very kind. She had been a huge part of my life ever since I was born. We had gone on multiple vacations together and visited at least once a month. I was pretty young at first so I didn’t notice her forgetting things‚ but my parents would talk about her forgetting where she had parked and then when
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Audience Awareness Knowing your audience—whether readers or listeners—will help you determine what information to include in a document or presentation‚ as well as how to convey it most effectively. You should consider your audience when choosing your tone‚ content‚ and language—or else your message may seem unfocused or inappropriate. In the classroom‚ your audience is often your professor. However‚ some assignments are designed so that you are addressing a secondary audience such as an expert
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Social media become an important medium of communication in the modern time in which it is provide powerful channels of information between politician and citizens. Besides that‚ the social media act as proactive devices for encouraging the citizen to participate in democratic process. The social media an important medium of information have influence people’s thought and action about politics and encouraged people to give opinions‚ critics and suggestions as well as participate in politics. Therefore
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Autism Awareness Angi Reid Sisk ESE Instructor Pillar October 24‚ 2011 Autism Awareness Autism is a disability that affects thousands of children today. The causes are yet to be known but there are many theories floating around as to how children develop this disorder. More importantly than how they have gotten the diagnosis‚ is what can be done do to help them thrive in their educational environment. Many of these children are staring school and are faced with an entirely new set of challenges
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that will be undertaken in conjunction with the Speak Good English Program. The activity proposed is: a) Treasure Hunt 3. FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSIDERATION 3.1. OBJECTIVES The Speak Good English Programme is hoped: 3.1.1. To create awareness and exposure of English language proficiency to participants of DPA 1/2014 ‚ management and staff of SKPMI and IKWAS; 3.1.2. To bridge the fraternity and cooperation among participants of DPA 1/2014 with management and staffs
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Alzheimer’s dementia is a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by several brain abnormalities that are selective and only affect neurons in specific regions of the brain. This disease is characterized by a progressive decrease in neuronal activity and neuronal survival. Historically‚ researchers have used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines to scan patients with Alzheimer’s disease and the unaffected old adults and then use supercomputers to create color-coded maps which revealed
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Understand the Process and experience of Dementia 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome There are several causes of dementia some of them are; a stroke‚ brain disease‚ MS‚ certain medications‚ shrinkage of the brain‚ too many opiates over a long period of time and severe alcoholism 1.2 Describe the types of memory impairment commonly experienced by individuals with dementia Dementia can cause the sufferer to experience loss of mental ability‚ loss of memory‚ a reduced
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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 lack awareness of signs and symptoms
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Growing up is hard to do‚ and growing up poor is even harder. Already faced with the normal growing pains of childhood‚ children growing up in low-income neighborhoods in the United States face what may sometimes seem like insurmountable struggles. Though some argue the degree of severity when compared with third-world countries‚ the reality is still the same. A lack of resources to any degree while growing up in these conditions‚ such as those I discovered right in my Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood
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Autism Autism Susan Schwarzkopf SJVC Online ENG 122 Composition & Reading Part B Patricia Vineski September 6‚ 2015 Autism Autism The importance of Autism research is to get the correct treatment of autism spectrum Disorders. Autism is one of a spectrum of behaviorally defined pervasive developmental disorders‚ which is referred to as autism spectrum disorder (www.ninds.nih.gov 7/17/15). The deficits in social communication and repetitive
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