• Identify and record and health issues such as poor hearing‚ poor eyesight‚ dehydration or problems with dentures to ensure there is no miscommunication with your care recipient. • Be aware that most people with dementia will revert back to their native tongue and/or other languages they have learnt. • Care recipients should always be given the choice to use professional translators and interpreters. Provide professional translators and interpreters to your care recipients and/or to their family
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in which environmental factors can impact on the development of an individual’s personality and intelligence. The discussion in this essay entails the extent to which environmental factors impact an individual’s development of personality and intelligence. Development can be defined as ‘improvement in function’ which would imply that it occurs with the progression of age. Personality has been found to have a substantial genetic influence however economic and social factors have been found to effect
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Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits As children‚ humans learn right from wrong through either punishment or praise by their parents. Depending on the action and accompanying reaction from their parents‚ a child may develop habits. According to Psychology Today‚ a habit is defined as an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary (Psychology Today‚ 2012). Some examples of habits are looking both ways before crossing the street‚ brushing
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How do people explain their own and other people’s behavior? ‘Behaviour’ is a term defined by psychologists as an act done by an animal in response to any stimulus provided by the outside world. An assumption held by many social psychologists when attempting to explain the reasons behind the action of people’s behaviour is that we try to find certain reasons that explain our own and other people’s action towards an environmental stimulus. This is also known as the theory of attribution‚ ie. We
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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 parts
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Task 2: FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE HEALTH AND NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS Design leaflet or fact sheet that explains the effect of four factors that can influence the health and everyday needs of individuals in society. Socio-economic: Bad Living conditions. Living conditions can affect your physical‚ emotional‚ intellectual and social needs depending on the places that you are living in or the quality of life you lead. Every human is affected differently depending on age or sex. We need
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Unit 4 Individual Project Marvin Bristow ITCO610-1202B-01 For Dr. Okonkwo Thursday‚ May 24‚ 2012 Advantages and disadvantages of the system In checking on a new information system that would gather information on customers of competitors; a definition of CI or Competitive Intelligence is in order. It is the initial connection of hazards and prospects in the marketplace ahead of their obvious appearance or Early Signal Analysis. This is a way of connecting not just widely available information but
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Questions Unit 21 Understand the process and experience of dementia Q.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells. This damage interferes with the ability of brain cells to communicate with each other. When brain cells cannot communicate normally‚ thinking‚ behaviour and feelings can be affected. The brain has many distinct regions‚ each of which is responsible for different functions (for example‚ memory‚ judgment and movement). When cells in
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Running head: FACTORS THAT DRIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 1 FACTORS THAT DRIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 4 Factors That Drive Organizational Change MGT/380 August 5‚ 2013 Factors That Drive Organizational Change Organizational change is defined as change that has an impact on the way work is performed and has a significant effect on staff. (The Vector study‚ 2012). Organizational change can be major like a reorganization or a much smaller change such as new computer software. Changes can include
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Dementia Awareness Dementia is a word used to describe a group of symptoms including memory loss‚ confusion‚ mood changes and difficulty with day-to-day tasks. There are many causes of dementia. The brain‚ along with the spinal cord‚ makes up the central nervous system‚ and it is this that controls all of our body’s functions. Within the brain there are billions of nerve cells that are known as neurons. These neurons communicate with each other and with other parts of the body by sending
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