1. What is dementia? Why is Alzheimer disease based on a “diagnosis of exclusion”? What diagnostic tests would be ordered to determine if Ella’s dementia could be caused by Alzheimer’s disease? Dementia: Grossman and Porth (2014) define dementia as a group of symptoms caused by disorders that affect the brain. Another name for dementia is‚ nonnormative cognitive decline‚ which can be induced by any disorder that irreversibly damages large areas of the cerebral hemispheres or subcortical areas (memory
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six items interpersonal sources such as a fight with boyfriend or girlfriend or trouble with parents‚ 16 items intrapersonal sources such as changes in eating or sleeping pattern‚ eight academic sources such as increased class workload or issues related to collage activities and 10 environmental sources such as computer skill problems. The result of study were (38%) of the stressors were interpersonal‚ (28%) environmental‚ (19%) interpersonal‚ and (15%) academic (Ross& Niebling‚ 2008). From this
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week‚ we move on to that very sensitive system of the body—the skin‚ and to that miraculous system of the body—the heart and the related circulatory system. You will add words related to the integumentary system and the cardiovascular system to your vocabulary of medical terms. Start this week by reading the online lectures. Use the textbook to learn medical terms related to these two systems. Read the medical reports carefully to see some of these terms in context. When you think you have understood
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Problems Related to the Identifying‚ Diagnosis and Assessment of Adolescent Depression Corna Olivier Student number 6919596 University of South Africa Table of Contents Pg Title page………………………………………………………………………….. 1 Table of Contents ……………………………………………………………… 2 Introduction………………………………………………………………………. 3 Adolescent Depression and the DSM-IV-TR ….…………………………. 5 Gender differences in Adolescent Depression ……………………………… 7 Culture and other environmental influences …………………………………. 9
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Coping is a technique in which people use when dealing with stressful events. It is referred to anything that one might feel‚ think‚ and/or do in order to reduce stress. Because people cope differently‚ there are several different coping methods that people undergo based on what stressful event they have experienced. One particular coping method‚ meaning-focused coping‚ is ways that people find to accomplish the meaning of a stressful situation. When something tragic happens in one’s life‚ let’s
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Care and Common Age Related Eye Diseases As we age‚ many things change‚ and not all of them change for the better. Age-related eyes diseases are some of these less than positive changes. Among the most common of these ailments are macular degeneration‚ cataracts‚ diabetic retinopathy‚ glaucoma‚ presbyopia‚ and dry eye. While dry eye and presbyopia are not diseases‚ per se‚ they do cause numerous problems in seniors‚ and dry eye syndrome is linked to many other age-related diseases such as rheumatoid
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Running Head: CELIAC DISEASE Celiac Disease Introduction Celicac disease (CD) is defined as an immune mediated malabsorption disorder caused by the ingestion of gluten and related proteins‚ occurring in genetically predisposed individuals‚ and characterized by a variable combination of elevated titers of celiac-specific autoantibodies‚ an inflammatory enteropathy with variable degrees of severity‚ and a wide range of gastrointestinal and/or systemic complaints”
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Coronary Artery Disease Tabatha Turner Practicum I Arkansas Tech University Coronary Artery Disease “Acute coronary syndromes represent a spectrum of clinical conditions that are associated with acute myocardial ischemia” (Gulanick & Myers‚ 2011). Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is one of these clinical conditions that affect approximately 13 million people (Rimmerman‚ 2011). Because coronary diseases are the leading cause of death in men and women‚ nurses need to be involved in the care
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wide range of stressors which brings forth changes to our body physically and mentally. Intense and prolonged pressure would make us stressful and lead to the warning signal of our body showing that we are more vulnerable to stress-related disorders such as heart disease and depression (Kemeny‚ 2003). Therefore‚ when human beings encounter stress‚ they would adopt various methods to cope with it trying to transform the stressful feeling into a more relaxed one. The method of mimicking a genuine smile
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Spanking; a form of punishment used by parents when children are not listening or are not behaving. Spanking today is a widely controversial topic due to many states becoming strict on copal punishment. As an ABC survey taken among parents with minor children at home‚ 50 percent report that they sometimes spank their child‚ while 45 percent do not. I think spanking is not an effective way for punishment because it causes relationship issues‚ teaches kids that “stronger” is better‚ and that it is
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