Nvq Dementia Awareness
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 lobe- This is responsible for vision, learning, language, memory and hearing. * Parietal lobe- This is the part where letters are formed, putting things in order, sensory information from the body and spatial awareness. * Occipital information- …show more content…
They easily forget things such as basic hygiene, taking medication and even their daily routines and eating. They can become easily lost or not understand a situation and become panicked and sometimes frightened of their surroundings. In some cases incidents such as turning on a gas hob on the cooker and forgetting about it can occur, which is dangerous to themselves and sometimes others around them. People with dementia are sometimes incapable to live a safe and self-caring life therefore dementia should be viewed as a disability for their safety and …show more content…
Lewy Bodies interrupt the normal function on brain cells by making it harder for them to communicate and resulting in the cells dying. The build-up of Lewy Body protein is not known. Age and genetics is also a risk factor and studies have shown that it is more likely to develop in a man than women.
Fronto-temporal dementia- The only known risk for this type of dementia is if it is in your family history. It can occur at a younger age compared to Alzheimer’s and the average length of the disease is 2-10 years.
3.4 Although there is no cure for dementia today, scientists are hopeful to find one in the future. For now the statistics for people with dementia or at risk of getting dementia are rather shocking and it goes to say that not everyone is aware of how many individuals are actually affected. Prevalence is the proportion of a population who are found to have a disease/condition.
* There are 800,000 people in the UK with a form of dementia in 2012 * There are over 17,000 people under 65 in the UK with dementia in 2012 * One in 14 people over 65 years of age and one in six people over 80 years of age has a form of dementia
Dementia in the UK * 40-64 year olds: 1 in 1400 * 65-69 year olds: 1 in
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 lobe- This is responsible for vision, learning, language, memory and hearing. * Parietal lobe- This is the part where letters are formed, putting things in order, sensory information from the body and spatial awareness. * Occipital information- …show more content…
They easily forget things such as basic hygiene, taking medication and even their daily routines and eating. They can become easily lost or not understand a situation and become panicked and sometimes frightened of their surroundings. In some cases incidents such as turning on a gas hob on the cooker and forgetting about it can occur, which is dangerous to themselves and sometimes others around them. People with dementia are sometimes incapable to live a safe and self-caring life therefore dementia should be viewed as a disability for their safety and …show more content…
Lewy Bodies interrupt the normal function on brain cells by making it harder for them to communicate and resulting in the cells dying. The build-up of Lewy Body protein is not known. Age and genetics is also a risk factor and studies have shown that it is more likely to develop in a man than women.
Fronto-temporal dementia- The only known risk for this type of dementia is if it is in your family history. It can occur at a younger age compared to Alzheimer’s and the average length of the disease is 2-10 years.
3.4 Although there is no cure for dementia today, scientists are hopeful to find one in the future. For now the statistics for people with dementia or at risk of getting dementia are rather shocking and it goes to say that not everyone is aware of how many individuals are actually affected. Prevalence is the proportion of a population who are found to have a disease/condition.
* There are 800,000 people in the UK with a form of dementia in 2012 * There are over 17,000 people under 65 in the UK with dementia in 2012 * One in 14 people over 65 years of age and one in six people over 80 years of age has a form of dementia
Dementia in the UK * 40-64 year olds: 1 in 1400 * 65-69 year olds: 1 in