Dementia: Alzheimer's Disease and Person
Understand the process and experience of dementia.
1. Understand the neurology of dementia.
1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome.
The Cambridge dictionary describes dementia as “ medical condition that affects especially old people, causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse, leading to confused behaviour”.
Basically dementia is a serious deterioration in mental functions such as memory, language, orientation and judgement.
This illness however is still no where near fully understand. There are however a number of different types of dementia and their causes which have been identified.
Different types of dementia include:
- Alzheimer’s disease.
- Vascular dementia.
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
- Biswanger’s Disease.
- Fronto-temporal disease.
- Dementia with lewy bodies.
- Huntington’s disease.
Alzheimer’s disease is described by the Alzheimer’s society as follows.
“ Alzheimer’s disease first described by the German neurologist Alois Alzheimer is a physical disease affecting the brain. During the course of the disease protein plaques and tangles develop in the structure of the brain, leading to the death of brain cells.
People with Alzheimer’s also have a shortage of some important chemicals in their brain. These chemicals are involved with the transmission of messages within the brain”.
Symptoms of Alzheimer’s include:
- Confusion and forgetfulness of names, place, appointments and recent events.
- Emotional changes such as mood swings, feeling sad or angry, scared and frustration of the loss of memory. This in turn can lead to a loss of confidence or communication problems.
- Everyday activities become difficult as confusion enters into daily live.
Vascular dementia.
Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia.
This is caused by problems in the supply of blood to the brain.
Symptoms of vascular dementia.
- Symptoms of vascular dementia
1. Understand the neurology of dementia.
1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome.
The Cambridge dictionary describes dementia as “ medical condition that affects especially old people, causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse, leading to confused behaviour”.
Basically dementia is a serious deterioration in mental functions such as memory, language, orientation and judgement.
This illness however is still no where near fully understand. There are however a number of different types of dementia and their causes which have been identified.
Different types of dementia include:
- Alzheimer’s disease.
- Vascular dementia.
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
- Biswanger’s Disease.
- Fronto-temporal disease.
- Dementia with lewy bodies.
- Huntington’s disease.
Alzheimer’s disease is described by the Alzheimer’s society as follows.
“ Alzheimer’s disease first described by the German neurologist Alois Alzheimer is a physical disease affecting the brain. During the course of the disease protein plaques and tangles develop in the structure of the brain, leading to the death of brain cells.
People with Alzheimer’s also have a shortage of some important chemicals in their brain. These chemicals are involved with the transmission of messages within the brain”.
Symptoms of Alzheimer’s include:
- Confusion and forgetfulness of names, place, appointments and recent events.
- Emotional changes such as mood swings, feeling sad or angry, scared and frustration of the loss of memory. This in turn can lead to a loss of confidence or communication problems.
- Everyday activities become difficult as confusion enters into daily live.
Vascular dementia.
Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia.
This is caused by problems in the supply of blood to the brain.
Symptoms of vascular dementia.
- Symptoms of vascular dementia