Unit 40: Dementia Care P1: Describe types of dementia and common signs and symptoms. What is dementia? Dementia is a common condition that affects about 800‚000 people in the UK. Your risk of developing dementia increases as you get older‚ and the condition usually occurs in people over the age of 65. Dementia is a syndrome associated with an ongoing decline of the brain and its abilities. This includes problems with: memory loss thinking speed mental agility language understanding
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the capacity to change? The modern view of neuroscience is that ‘You are your brain.’ Many scientists conclude that any behavioral change in humans is a direct result of the imbalance in their neurobiology. Humans have the capacity to change‚ and it can be either positive or negative depending on the experience that caused the behavioral alternation. The literature brings variety of examples on different types of human change. Some of them can be taken consciously when others are the result of
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"How Being in Love can Change People" In the three marvelous works‚ Matchstick Men‚ Punch-Drunk Love‚ and "Mama Day"‚ people are all changed greatly‚ and for the better by romantic or father/child love. How everyone knows that there is no one on Earth who is perfect‚ yet when there is love‚ we come so close to it. Within these three works of art‚ one can analyze how there is actual change through people when there is love present. Cocoa states in Gloria Naylor’s "Mama Day"‚ "When I had
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in the things they enjoy and can be an effective way of preventing and managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. The key points of person-centred care are: treating the person with dignity and respect recognising person’s individuality and valuing the person understanding their history‚ lifestyle‚ culture and preferences‚ including their likes‚ dislikes‚ hobbies and interests looking at situations from the point of view of the person with dementia enabling social relationships
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• 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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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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Lack of Exercise May Cause Falls in the Elderly Problem Section Falls are a major source of death and injury in elderly people. For example‚ they cause 90% of hip fractures and the current cost of hip fractures in the US is estimated to be about 10 billion dollars (Kato‚ Izumi‚ Hiramatsu‚ & Shogenji‚ 2006). Ensuring patient safety is one of the main reasons given for use of restraints. However‚ according to Jech (2006)‚ the use of physical restraints is unlikely to prevent falls. Physical restraints
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Psychology May 8‚ 2014 Biological Factors of Homelessness Sheila McKehnie said‚ “People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.” This illustrates the important point that we cannot dismiss a person’s human dignity simply because he or she lives on the street. On the contrary‚ we need to acknowledge their equality and think about the endless factors that could have put these people on the streets. There are many biological and social factors that can lead to homelessness
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