Dementia Awareness Unit 1. Explain what the term Dementia means 2. Describe the key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia 3. Explain why depression‚ delirium and age related memory impairment may be mistaken for dementia 4. Outline the medical models of dementia 5. Outline the social models of dementia 6. Explain why dementia should be viewed as a disability 7. List the most common causes of dementia 8. Describe the likely signs and symptoms of the most common causes
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written to describe the impact of visual and hearing impairments on student’s academic achievement to teachers and other educators. Having knowledge of these impairments allows the teacher to better serve students with these impairments in the classroom. Hearing and Visual Impairments Hearing and visual impairments have a major impact on a person’s development and academic achievement. Hearing and seeing are critical to speech and language development‚ communication‚ and learning. The earlier
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Understand the nutritional needs that are unique to individuals with dementia 1.1 - Describe how cognitive functional and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating drinking and nutrition: Cognitive: if cognitive ability is impaired a patient could forget to eat‚ or think they aren’t being fed at all as well as forgetting to drink etc‚ they may also leave cookers or other hot things on as they have forgotten they have put them on‚ Functional: They may not be able to feed
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McCarthy uses language in the road to stir readers emotions. The Road is a story of a father and son fighting to survive in a post apocalyptic world where the basics of humanity have disappeared. The writing is fragmented‚ sparse and‚ from the beginning‚ reflects the barren and bleak landscape through which the father and Son are traveling. McCarthy abandons quotation marks in dialogue‚ he dispenses minimal punctuation. His toying with the rules of grammar and punctuation in effect emphasises the
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Dementia awareness Outcome 1 Understand what dementia is 1. Explain what is meant by the term ’dementia’ Dementia is a non-specific illness syndrome with serious loss of global cognitive ability. It can be static or progressive. More common above the age of 65 but can occur before that age‚ when it’s called „early on set dementia”. It can occur becouse of a brain injury (e.g. stroke) or with a disease or damage in the body (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease‚ Parkinson disease). The main signs and symptoms
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Dementia awareness 1.1 The term ‘dementia’ is used to describe a number of symptoms including memory loss‚ problems communicating and reasoning. It also affects a person’s ability to perform every day activities such as washing‚ dressing‚ cooking and generally caring for themselves. 1.2 The key functions that are affect by dementia include: * Frontal lobe- This part of the brain is responsible for problem solving‚ making decisions‚ controlling behaviour and emotions * Temporal
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How can nutrition and recovery strategies affect performance? 54. Why is a well balance training diet essential for an athlete? A well balance training diet is essential for an athlete. Good diet and nutrition can enhance sporting performance. Carbohydrates should form the basis of the sportsperson’s diet. For most athletes‚ a varied healthy diet will provide vitamins and minerals‚ as well as protein‚ to promote growth and repair of muscle tissues. Adequate fluid intake is essential to help performance
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How does the Catherine Tate sketch use language? Catherine Tate uses a wide variety of linguistic techniques and lexis throughout the comedy sketch with the Prime minister. The effects these techniques have on the audience are focused as they effectively engage the audience whilst being humorous and tactile. The tenor used is strong and inappropriate. Our expectations of a girl participating in work experience with the Prime Minister are somewhat obedient and well mannered‚ yet the complete
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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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Verbal and Nonverbal Communication HCA/230 March 11‚ 2011 Verbal and Nonverbal Communication There are many principles to each form of communication‚ both verbal and nonverbal. It is somewhat dependant on the circumstances in which you are speaking. All principles are important‚ some more than others. I will concentrate on three that I consider important. One of the three principles that I consider to be paramount is Be Authentic‚ do not try to be or act like someone you are not.
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