Although there a small amount of cases of Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementia can be inherited from a previous generation. Vascular dementia is where the blood supply to the brain is interrupted, if there is restricted or stopped blood supply to the brain that’s when the cells being to die which results in brain damage. * Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, this form of the disease is the loss of cells in brain which causes the brain to shrink. The medical term for this is ‘Atrophy’. The most affected part of the brain is the Cerebral Cortex; this part
DEM 201 Task 1 Design an information booklet explaining to relative of the individuals you support What is meant by the term dementia? The term 'dementia' describes a set of symptoms which include loss of memory, mood changes, and problems with communication and reasoning. These symptoms occur when the brain is damaged by certain diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and damage caused by a series of small strokes. Dementia is progressive, which means the symptoms will gradually get worse. How fast dementia progresses will depend on the individual person and what type of dementia they have.
1. Understand what dementia is 1.1 Explain what is meant by the term ‘dementia’ Referring to the degeneration (decline) of various functions governed by the central nervous system, including motor reactions memory and learning capabilities, problem solving etc. These functions normally decline with age, but several dementia syndromes result from pathological organic deterioration of the brain. Dementia is a common condition that affects about 700,000 people in the UK. Your risk of developing dementia increases as you get older, and the condition usually occurs in people over the age of 65.
This causes a gradual decline in mental ability. The key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia are the temporal lobe, frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, cerebrum lobe and the hippocampus 3. Depression, delirium and age related memory impairment share a lot of the symptoms of dementia. For instance with depression their memory may be affected and they may find it difficult to retain new information, also it is quite common for people to become forgetful as they age. This may be why people mistake them for dementia.
In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the main character Edna has a fascination with the sea that is never satiated. In the outset of her life she is mystified by it because she is unable to swim. To Edna, the sea represents the ultimate place for solitude and contemplation; the sea invites “the soul to wander for a spell of abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.” (13). When she finally learns to swim she pushes herself to go farther and farther, where no woman has ever gone before. The progression of Edna skill in the water also closely correlates with her mental awakening.
Most experts believe they somehow block communication among nerve cells and disrupt activities that cells need to survive. Introduction Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. Scientists have learned a great deal about Alzheimer’s disease in the century since Dr. Alzheimer first drew attention to it. Today we know that Alzheimer’s: * Is a progressive and fatal brain disease. As many as 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease.
Being honest about ones problem can help with another person misery. Teens and adult tend to feel embarrassed about any medical condition and for that they lean towards lying about how they feel but not Nancy Mair. Nancy Mair, author of “On Being a Cripple,” talked about her experience with having MS and her true feelings about her disabilty. In her essay she points out the pros and cons of the problems that she goes through and how the disease can change some people actions in their everyday life. Mairs even goes as far to say that, “Because I hate being crippled, I sometimes hate myself for being a cripple.
Plaques and tangles are believed to block communications to nerve cells which result in them dying. ("What is Alzheimer's?" Alzheimer's Association) After I read that I was kind of confused as to what the difference is between dementia and Alzheimer’s. I looked through this site some more to find out. I found that dementia is just any memory loss or mental disability that interferes with ones everyday life.
For instance, short term memory loss , forgetting things done by themselves or can’t identify their own relationships with the family members. And sometimes their mood changes in a moment if they were laughing a minute ago they will start crying badly and argue more often on even simple things. They start to believe false things are true , loss interest in conversation with someone but usually they just don’t talk much because they have problem in speaking and they suddenly forgets what they were just talking about. As the disease progresses, they forget how to do the simplest tasks of daily routine. It extends to a worse position.
In my mother’s case, she was struck on the left side of her car, impacting the left side of her head which gave her paralysis on her right side. Traumatic brain injury, (TBI) may result in life long impairments of an individual's physical, cognitive, psychosocial functioning, memory, speech, attention, reasoning, judgment, sensory, problem solving, and motor skills which severely impact the injured person's life, their families, and significant other. Family members are making decisions for their loved one that they never envisioned having to make. The majority of TBI patients will need extensive rehabilitation following their hospital stay. Rehabilitation can last months or even