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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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    Communication and Dementia

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    Unit 18: Understanding the role of communication and interactions with individuals who have dementia Unit Code: DEM 308 1. How do individuals with dementia communicate through their behaviour (1.1) Persons with dementia may communicate through behaviours such as: • Repetition of actions or questions‚ this may communicate anxiety over memory loss‚ boredom from inactivity‚ to seek reassurance‚ picking at clothing due to anxiety. • Aggression‚ this may communicate depression‚ an inability

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    How can email communication affect your business? Email is now one of the fastest ways to gain or lose potential customers because of its ability to deliver information fast to an enormous amount of people. After sending an email you are no longer in control of the effects of the message and can only wait in suspense. An employee of your company started off his/her day in a bad mood. A potential customer emails them with a trivial question and they reply with a brash tone. Do you think that the

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    The importance of following a direct order Last night at final formation the company was directly told from‚ “The BAD GUY” to put our phones up before we went to sleep. This was just a simple task that should have been too easy to follow‚ right‚ wrong after lights out I was laying in bed not talking on my phone but I was still fumbling around with my phone trying to set my alarm‚ which was wrong because in the back of my mind I knew all I had to do was just leave the phone alone. Now this order

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    Rights and Dementia

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    Dementia 211 C-unit Outcome 1- understand key legislation and agreed ways of working that ensure the fulfilment of rights and choices of individuals with dementia while minimising risk of harm. Key legislation- Human rights act 1998 Mental capacity act 2005 Mental capacity and deprivation of liberty safeguards 2005 Adults with incapacity (Scotland) act 2000 Mental health act 2007 The disability discrimination act 1995 Safeguarding vulnerable groups act 2006 Carers

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    Stereotyping With Dementia

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    Dementia is usually a progressive debilitating syndrome that changes the person’s life forever. People can have many different ways of coping with the diagnosis of dementia. These emotions can become obstacles that could hinder the patient’s progress in therapy if they are not addressed. It is important that therapists recognize what is dementia‚ the daily challenges their patients and family members might be dealing with when diagnosed with dementia and what skills they‚ as therapists‚ should

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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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    Following and Ans

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    T- State b) Instruction Cycle c) Machine Cycle d) All of the above Ans: a 40.At the end of the following code‚ what is the status of the flags. LXI B‚ AEC4H MOV A‚C ADD HLT a) S = 1‚ CY = 0‚ P = 0 ‚ AC = 1 b) S =0 ‚ CY = 1‚ P = 0‚AC = 1 c) S = 0‚ CY = 1‚ P = 0 ‚ AC = 1 d) S = 0‚ CY = 1‚ P = 1 ‚ AC = 1 41.In 8051 micro controller what is the HEX number in the accumulator after the execution of the following code. MOV A‚#0A5H CLR C RRC A RRC A RL A RL A SWAP AAbout CSC (www.csc.com/in): It started with

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    The difference between alcohol dementia and dementia is that alcohol dementia is a form of dementia caused by a long term use of alcohol and excessively drinking to the point where the individual suffers from memory loss due to neurological damage to the brain. With dementia there is the person does not suffer from alcohol abuse. Alcohol dementia can cause very serious brain complications and ten percent of patients diagnosed with alcohol dementia have a history of extended alcohol abuse. People

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    Dementia Awareness

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    Unit 4222-237 Dementia awareness. 1.3. Depression‚ delirium and age related memory impairment may be mistaken for dementia as they all share the many of the same symptoms as dementia. Below I will put the symptoms of all of these and you will see they are very similar. Symptoms of depression: -Anxiety‚ irritability‚ Delusions -Hallucinations  -Increased or decreased body movements -Pacing‚ wringing their hands‚ pulling or rubbing their hair‚ body‚ or clothing -Sleep disturbance: difficulty

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