When Dementia Affects your FamilyWhen Dementia affects your family. It was about a year ago this month when my mother was diagnios with the beginning stages of Dementia. You heard very little about the disease, but more about Alzheimer. So I wanted to learn more about the symptoms that we may have over looked, and what we need to recognize, and how this disease progresses. Though my mother will most like not died of Dementia the complications can promote other factors that the family must recognized and keep track as we comprehend the stages and keep mother focus on the life so time is totally lost for her.
Jenna Riley Case Study Team B NUR/427 November 11, 2013 Karen Rousseau Jenna Riley Case Study Jenna Riley is a 14- year- old teenage girl, who lives with her mother and younger brother. She is often left home alone to care for her brother and soon starts to believe she is unworthy. She is a good student and has a good share of friends, however, Jenna starts to feel unaccepted by her peers and corresponds that unacceptance because of her excessive weight. She is self-conscious about how she looks and knows she needs to lose weight, but lacks the confidence needed to do so. She is unaware of the damage she is doing to her health by her binge eating and secretly eating unhealthy foods.
Viktor Petrov 15/07/2015 Outcome 1 Understand what dementia is 1. Explain what is meant by the term ‘dementia’ Definition: Dementia is not a specific disease. It's an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities. Alzheimer's disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of cases. Vascular dementia, which occurs after a stroke, is the second most common dementia type.
Pamalynn M. Brault Unit 4 Assignment Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Services HN450 Dr. Phillip Farmer May 17, 2015 Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of Dementia in elderly adults. Dementia is the term used for most brain aliments in elderly adults. It refers to anything from Alzheimer’s, to Parkinson’s, etc. It basically means that for whatever reason the brains cells are either dying or no longer functioning properly. It can start out with simple forgetting to do tasks, such as balancing a check book to issues that are more serious like leaving on a stove to forgetting where you are at when you are driving a vehicle for instance.
Dementia is an umbrella term for number of diseases; "over 130 are known today" that affect the memory, behaviour, and motor skills. This causes vary depending on the disease, but largely the presence of "plaques and triangles" on the neurons of the brain are found with people with Alzheimer’s. Plaques are proteins that the body no longer breaks down and allows to build up, those get between the neurons that disrupt message transmission. The tangles are tau proteins within the neurons becoming abnormal. Types of Dementia Alzheimer's disease: This is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for about half of all cases.
This is followed by collecting cues, processing information, identifying problems, establishing goals, taking action, evaluating outcomes and reflecting on process and new learning (Levitt-Jones, 2012). In this scenario an 86-year-old female patient has suffered a fall and is demonstrating early symptoms of dementia. Consider the patient/Patient Context: Mrs Checketts is a petite 86 year old woman who has been admitted to your facility for respite after treatment for a fractured wrist sustained during a fall at home. | Collect cues/information: You review this initial impression and current information and gather new information/cues you consider relevant:Mrs Checketts lives alone and manages her own activities of daily living. Her son lives interstate and her niece pops in to visit her a few times a week.
1.1 Dementia is a term used to describe a broad range of between 100-150 diseases which affect the brain. Some of the conditions are better than others, while some show more symptoms then others. You can get symptoms of the disease to slow its progress; however dementia is not currently reversible. There are many types of dementia such as; Alzheimer’s- which is the most common type of dementia. Lewy body dementia Picks disease Multi-infarct Dementia Huntington’s Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease 1.2 The brain consists of three main sections: the hindbrain, the midbrain and the forebrain.
Final Project: Analysis of a Psychological Disorder Axia University PSY 270 June 26, 2011 Final Project: Psychological Disorder Analysis This paper will be an analysis of Marla, a 42-year-old Hispanic female. She has come to the clinic expressing symptoms of problems with sleep, a feeling of nervousness, and an inability to concentrate. Although the précis is short and lacks numerous minutiae, my initial impression is Marla may be suffering Dysthymia disorder. According to Kohn (2007), if the symptoms Marla is suffering have been present two or more years, she may have Dysthymia disorder. Conversely, Marla may have a major depression, as the symptoms are quite similar in both disorders.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association research, an estimated 5.4 million people are living with Alzheimer’s disease and it is the sixth leading cause of death in the country and the only cause of death in the top ten that cannot be prevented, cured or slowed down. In the media today there are numerous psychological models for Alzheimer’s disease. There are also research groups out there trying to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease because as of today, a cure does not exist. However, the psychological models that are available to us help us understand the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on an individual, or on the country as a whole. The
With some things; the more you know, the better off you are. Throughout this speech I hope to enlighten you on the symptoms and statistics, treatments, and new discoveries of this condition. According to Oxford’s Dictionary, multiple sclerosis is defined as a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Multiple sclerosis is very common, as it affects 350,000-400,000 people in the United States with women being diagnosed about twice as frequently as men. There is no telling exactly how many people have this, because as I stated previously, many people go without knowing for quite some time, or never at all.