CARE FOR THE OLDER PERSON WITH DEMENTIA AIM/PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to address to family members or family carers for older people with dementia a range of perspectives‚ as understanding perspective of those affected. For the purpose of giving them an idea of knowing the early signs and symptoms of dementia and the suggested care by the experienced staff involved in this study. To know and identify the problems of the person having dementia‚ and as carers‚ to know how to respond
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As a new era dawns upon us many people find themselves asking the question; "What is Alzheimer ’s Disease?" Alzheimer ’s Disease today affects almost all people in some way. Since the amount of lives this disease affects continues to increase epidemiologists have named Alzheimer ’s Disease‚ "The Disease of the Century". In 1906 a German neurologist Alois Alzheimer performed a neurological autopsy on a 56-year-old woman who had suffered deteriorating mental health for many years before her death
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Level Five Writing LDA Fall B: Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Medicine has made great progress in the 2oth century but still not all diseases can be cured. Two such diseases are Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. In this essay I will discuss the similarities and differences of these two diseases and describe some of the symptoms. First‚ there are only two similarities between the diseases. Both of them are caused by genetics. This means that some people are more likely to get
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Unilateral Optic Neuritis as a Presentation of Neurobrucellosis Introduction: Brucellosis is an infectious disease due to the bacteria Brucella that causes rising and falling fevers‚ sweats‚ weakness‚ headache‚ muscle pain and back pain. Involvement of Central Nervous System causes Neurobrucellosis resulting in serious complications of brucellosis infection like meningitis‚ stroke‚ cranial nerve lesions‚ or mycotic aneurysms. This condition usually requires treatment with antibiotics that cross
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The purpose of this paper is to describe a disease process that is caused by a malfunction in a particular body system. I decided to focus on the neurological system and to do my research on cerebral palsy. The nervous system is a delicate body system made up of many parts and has many functions. The nervous system has three main functions- sensory‚ integration‚ as well as motor. There are two components or the nervous system (the central and peripheral nervous system) as well as two subdivisions
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! Pathophysiology Research Paper - Parkinson’s Disease 7/20/13 ! Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder second to Alzheimer’s disease in prevalence (1). PD is marked by rigidity‚ a tremor at rest‚ unstable posture‚ and bradykinesia. Incident rates of PD increase with age the earliest occurring around 40 years with a significant increase after 60 years (7). Approximately 1 in 272 people have PD in the United States though it is believed that there are many undiagnosed
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Dementia is the loss of intellectual and social abilities severe enough to interfere with daily functioning. For centuries‚ people called it senility and considered it an inevitable part of aging. It is now known that dementia is not a normal part of the aging process and that it is caused by an underlying condition. People with this condition need special assistance to carry on with their normal lives. This paper will explain some of the social services that are helping to combat this disease and
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Neurological disorders are diseases of the brain and the nerves. Everybody knows that the brain is the most important organ of the body. The brain is the Part of the central nervous system that is made up of the nerves which are connected to the body through the spinal cord. The human brain is responsible for all the mental and physical processes According to MedlinePlus If the brain is in a good condition it works automatically‚ but if problems appear brain will lose its ability to control the body
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Glaucoma is stealing away the vision and way of life from Americans every day. This disease is causing the vision of many Americans to be lost‚ and many more may soon follow. This disease is difficult to detect and the damage done is irreversible; but what if there was a solution? I am proposing a stem cell treatment for glaucoma that could that could heal the effects caused by glaucoma. This stem cell treatment allows for a promising non controversial solution to glaucoma induced blindness that
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Joe Smith Sheryl Harris English 1101-Annotated Biliography 20 Septemper 2011 Depression and pain: An Annotated Biliography Snapp‚ Dr. Cathrine. Personal Interview: Tallahassee September 20 2011. Doing my interview with Dr. Snapp i asked the following questions; what is depression‚ h what causes depression and can a person overcome depression. In Response Dr. Snapp s stated that depression is a chemical imbalance
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