It’s usually depressing people around like family and friends. Researchers found that there is no relation between depression and dementia-related damage to brain but they would like determine exactly how depression influences the risk of dementia.They need to try identify structure and functions in the brain that are linked to depression in old age and that could explain the link between them and know how to treat depression to reduce risk of dementia. This research cannot be bias because source was very trustworthy such as research was done in Universities and very respectable magazines. Most of the research was done clinically so that says that researchers were trying to get to the bottom of the
Why had his respirations not been monitored? The nurse likely in her very busy state forgot to put him on the ECG monitor, or she may have not chosen to place him on a monitor. She may have chosen to not put him on a monitor because in her personal experience he was a low risk patient with a high narcotic tolerance. With the ER getting busier she thought she was saving herself a little bit of time by not placing him on the ECG monitor. Using the “five whys” to
When an older person is diagnosed with dementia there are various support services available for both the individual and their family. It is almost expected that an older person will have dementia and is considered the way in which people age. Older people have very different needs to a younger person, older people have care services that they can use to help them with day to day life such as personal care, cooking, cleaning, medication etc. Older people are less like to have a large group of friends with which they socialise with on a regular basis. If a younger person is diagnosed with dementia it is more unusual.
In reviewing the Aging with Dignity Website I learned more about what the Five Wishes are. Death and dying isn’t something that most people want to talk about, but it is very important to make your wishes known before it is too late. Five Wishes helps make this very achievable. For me, the answer to the questions are as follows 1- Who you want to make health care decisions for you when you can’t make them? I would like for my Husband Joseph to make those decisions for me, if he is unable and If my children are of adult age, then I would want my children, Chloe, Hannah, Natalie and Madelyn to make the decisions.
Alzheimer’s early stages include but aren’t limited to minor Short-term memory loss, forgetting that memory lapses happened and some confusion in situations outside the familiar. The early stages are difficult but with support from family and medical experts they are manageable, but what if the patient is scared of the late symptoms. Late stage of Alzheimer’s includes but isn’t limited to speech impairment, repeatedly initiating the same conversation, abusiveness, anxiety, and paranoia and debilitating cognitive deficit, which in layman’s term means mental retardation and eventually death but not from the disease it’s self. Shouldn’t those patients have a choice weather they want to go through the later stages of Alzheimer’s, it’s very doubtful that
Does that mean older adults who are losing one or more of their senses are simply out of luck? Not at all. Cures may not be available for the major causes of age-related sensory loss, but armed with the right knowledge about which age-related sensory losses are normal and which are not, we can better understand what to do about them. Understanding sensory loss can help individuals adapt and accept these natural changes. Equally important is not accepting a change as a normal part of aging without first understanding the loss.
This is why, most home health programs have standard health protocols, plans of care, interventions and routine evaluation measures to assist people suffering from moderate and severe dementia of late onset. But early onset Alzheimer’s disease affects people who are most likely young, employed, physically robust, sexually active and who have different leisure interests than their elder peers. Chaston D. (2010) suggests that: “numerous barriers continue to prevent younger adults with dementia accessing support and services. Their voices are not heard and their needs overlooked, often because nurses and other health professionals fail to recognise that dementia exists in this age group.” So, to make sure young individuals affected by dementia get the home care they need, “Care for memories initiative’s” focus is to create a comprehensive home care program for families whose first degree relative has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Within this program, where the expertise of various professionals will be required, people suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease will be followed up regularly and according to their needs.
Executive SummaryThis report examines the irreversible effects of cigarette smoking on various organ systems and challenges the notion that a few years of exposure to smoking will have no lasting adverse consequences. Our hope is to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit by appealing to their common sense and better judgment, thereby allowing them to choose for themselves not to smoke. We will not recite the familiar litany of smoking-related health problems such as emphysema, cancer, and heart disease. Rather, we will show that smoking cigarettes for as few as five years can have a permanent effect on the lungs, the heart, the eyes, the throat, the urinary tract, the digestive organs, the bones and joints, and the skin—even if the smoker quits. We do not mean to dishearten long-term smokers.
With advances in medicine, Boomers can expect to live well into their seventies and eighties. This leaves many Boomers with the fear that they might not be able to remain self-sufficient. According to Joseph F. Coughlin’s article Technology Needs of Aging Boomers, “…introduction of a new generation of appliances, air filtration systems, health monitors, and related devices could make the home a viable alternative to long-term care for many older adults” (p. 57). Coughlin also argues that with aging comes the fear of lacking the ability to communicate which, leads to isolation. In today’s world, Boomers do not need to have this fear that their elders had because the use of email, cell phones, video-conferencing, and other means of electronic communication are frequent among the Boomers.
There are numerous, beneficial uses for steroids in the field of medicine. Their purpose is not to create a lean body with a one digit body fat percentage, but to better the lives from premature children to aging grandparents and every age in between (Rehan). It’s especially valuable for cancer, HIV, and motor vehicle victims. In most of these cases because of operations and treatment, the patients lose weight and muscle definition. The loss of these can lead to problems when it comes to walking and other use of motor functions.