affect that dementia has on thinking skills e.g. memory‚ understanding etc. Functional is about the ability to perform actions such as feeding themselves. Emotional is about how they feel and react e.g. confusion can cause distress and aggression. As dementia progresses‚ eating and drinking can become difficult for some people. This factsheet looks at some of the difficulties that people with dementia may have with eating and drinking‚ and suggests ways to help. A person with dementia may no longer
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CU1683 1.2 Younger people with dementia diagnoses may still be employed have children and a family and it can be a lot more distressing for them when diagnosed than someone who is older‚ they have a better awareness of what is coming and what is going to happen‚ and older person may not realise they have dementia at first‚ and out it down to Age‚ and by the time they are diagnosed they have had it for some time so the trauma is not so severe and they don’t have dependents to worry about‚ so
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There are many strategies available to help support people with physiological disorders. For both dementia and diabetes there are multiple care strategies to help them cope with their disorders and to support them through it all. The first physiological disorder I am going to be talking about related to care strategies is dementia. As dementia is a progressive illness‚ the care strategies will have to make them feel as comfortable and safe as possible. As stated in my P5‚ the first strategy
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Understand and Meet the Nutritional Requirements of Individuals with Dementia 1.1 Describe how cognitive‚ functional and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating‚ drinking and nutrition Cognitive behaviour is dysfunctional emotions and behaviours caused by damage in brain affecting part of the brain responsible for memory and all that we learn from birth- how to talk‚ eat etc. This means that person with dementia can forget how important it is to eat and drink. They also may lose
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date and regularly retested or reviewed to ensure that I am refreshed with everything. 3. Describe potential conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between the duty of care and an individual’s rights. In out care setting the individuals have got dementia so they may not have the ability to judge what is good for them and what is not. In those cases it is our responsibility and job as carers and as a team to provide them what we judge is best for them in some other
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Task a 103 1. Explain how individuals with dementia may communicate through their behaviour. Dementia sufferers communicate in many different ways. They may not be able to speak but they can communicate non-verbally with positive or negative behaviour. They can also communicate using body language and through posture. One service user who was blind was hard to settle‚ because he couldn’t see it was hard to communicate‚ he was unable to express himself verbally and he was very anxious and
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HLTEN515B implement and monitor care for older clients Written assignment 1 There are many different forms of dementia and each has its own cause. Some of the main type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease‚ which is the most common form of dementia affecting 50%-70% of dementia patients (Alzheimer’s australia‚ 2005). This is a degenerative illness which attacks the brain‚ this is achieved buy tangles which are in the middle of shrunken brain cells and plaques which eventually cause the brain cells
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Tom Journey with dementia. He suffers from Alzheimer’s dementia and lives in sheltered housing. I will explore issues surrounding nutrition intake‚ wandering‚ communication‚ incontinence and the environment that affect the client‚ family and staff. I will then look at the assessment process‚ care planning‚ implementing and evaluation. I will explore patient safety‚ intervention and the processes that managers and professionals have to undertake when managing patients with dementia. These interventions
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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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DEVELOPMENT Page 58 Dementia multiple choice questionnaire Page 59 Read Catherine Gibbs’s practice profile on diabetic ketoacidosis Page 60 Guidelines on how to write a practice profile Promoting positive approaches to dementia care in nursing NS562 Hoe J‚ Thompson R (2010) Promoting positive approaches to dementia care in nursing. Nursing Standard. 25‚ 4‚ 47-56. Date of acceptance: July 27 2010. Summary This article provides an overview of factors relevant to dementia care today. The number
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