Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and accounts for between 50 and 70 per cent of all cases. It is a progressive degenerative illness that attacks the brain. As brain cells shrink or disappear, abnormal material builds up as ‘tangles’ in the centre of the cells and ‘plaques’ form outside the cells. These disrupt messages within the brain, damaging connections between brain cells. The cells eventually die and this means that information cannot be recalled or assimilated.
Schizophrenia is a serious, reoccurring brain disease that affects up to one percent of the world population today (Mental Health America, 2011).Schizophrenia is often misunderstood among the general public and can easily slip past concerned friends or family members of the patients suffering with this disease. Many signs of schizophrenia are closely related to that of depression or even laziness (National Mental Health Institute, 2007). Major indicators of the disease that persist for at least two weeks include: the constant hearing of voices and the feeling of being watched, feeling of indifference to very important problems, changes in personal interest abruptly or mass changes in personal hygiene, and bizarre behavior or new obsession with
Assignment – 204 Task B Pensioner died of 'inexcusable failures' by staff!! Alan Simper, 84 years old a former electronics engineer who designed the original lighting for Wembley arena and for Wimbledon throughput his career suffered from Parkinson’s disease and Dementia, Alan was also blind, deaf and dependable on a catheter. Alan was a husband to his second wife Mari Simper for nearly 20 years, he was also a father to 4 and a grandfather to 8. On 23rd January 2009 Alan was admitted to the Swiss Cottage Nursing Home in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire which is owned by Britain’s largest care home provider Southern Cross Group, they own 730 care homes and 37000 beds across the UK because his wife Mari, 64, could no longer take care of his needs, just a day later Alan’s horrified family found him naked on all fours wearing a nappy, covered in bruises and smeared with congealed blood. Alan was admitted with just 3 bed sores, they quickly multiplied to 18 which were covered with dirty and inadequate dressings, Alan’s condition deteriorated so rapidly that he died just 6 days after being readmitted to hospital on February 24th as a result of infected multiple pressure sores A GP and tissue viability nurse who then examined Mr Simper on February 18 found that he was covered in the 18 pressure sores and dirty dressings, one of his sores could not be measured as he was in so much pain.
2. Educating yourself on what Alzheimer’s disease is, how to recognize the warning signs and what stages a person will go through when diagnosed can prepare you for any encounters of a person diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or even help you recognize the signs. Catchy Memorable Statement Alzheimer’s disease has no boundaries on who it will affect. The late Pres. Ronald Reagan, Sugar Ray Robinson a famous boxer and the “Penguin” in the Batman TV series Burgess Meredith all suffered and died due to Alzheimer’s disease.
His family made funeral arrangements and prepared a coffin for him, but astonishingly Gage recovered. About two weeks after the accident Dr. Harlow released 8 ounces of pus from an abscess under Gages scalp, which if not done would have drained into Gages brain, and would have killed him. However, by January 1, 1849 Gage was living a seemingly normal life. Harlow wrote a case report on Gage's incident and it was found as a letter in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. It contained very few neurological details, and many were skeptic about the case, because at the time no one thought anyone could survive an injury of that sort.
Demographic Paper Target the aging population Cheryl Etchison HCS/490 Cindy Perkins December 23, 2013 The elderly, a population of people whose healthcare needs make up a vast majority of people in the United States that has the greatest impact on the needs in healthcare. Everyday someone is diagnosed with a condition that is prevalent among the elderly population called dementia. Dementia is a debilitating condition that effects the brain to where it does not function properly anymore. And these people come to a point where they are no longer able to take care of themselves, not because they care physically unable to but because they cannot remember how to to perform simple tasks because the brain is slowly deteriorating. Most often this is in the form of Alzheimer’s disease that can be diagnosed as early as 40 and rarely earlier but most often in people 50 and older.
Alzheimer’s Disease Amanda Perdue History In 1901, Frau Auguste D, a 51 year-old patient was referred to German physician Alois Alzheimer. She presented with memory problems, unfounded suspicions of her husbands' infidelity, receptive aphasia, and expressive aphasia. Eventually her symptoms progressed and she succumbed to her illness. Alzheimer gained permission to perform an autopsy and found extensive shrinkage in the brain especially in the cortex which is the outer layer of the brain involved with memory and speech. He also discovered fatty deposits in small blood vessels, and abnormal deposits in and around dead or dying brain cells.
Serious memory loss, confusion, behavior changes, and difficulty speaking, swallowing, and walking have been known to be signs of an individuals whose brain cells are failing. 2. Difficulty remembering newly important information is the most common early symptom of Alzheimer’s. B. Symptoms of Alzheimer’s are more than memory loss, they may also be changes in other every day, simple activities.
Emma Brighton HSC LEVEL 3 DIPLOMA Unit 51 – Understand and enable interaction and communication with individuals who have dementia. Explain how different forms of Dementia may affect the way an individual communicates. Dementia is a common condition that affects about 800,000 people in the United Kingdom and the chances of you developing dementia increases as you get older. Dementia occurs as a result of the death of brain cells or damage to brain cells, in some cases this is a result of a stroke, that deal with our thought process. It is a syndrome (a group of related symptoms) associated with on going decline of the brain and its abilities which include: • Memory loss • Thinking speed • Mental agility • Language • Understanding judgement • Increasing difficulties with tasks and activities that require concentration and planning • Depression • Changes in personality and mood • Periods of mental confusion • Difficulty finding the right words There are many different forms of dementia and they can all affect the way a person communicates.
Lesley Chubick PS124 Introduction to Psychology Alzheimer’s, Disorder of the Brain Unit 7 Assignment The mental disorder I chose for this assignment is on Alzheimers. Alzheimers is a form of dementia that is a disease that attacks the brain’s intellectual functions such as memory, orientation and calculation. This degenerative brain disease attacks one in ten men and women over 60. The question many of us have is what is Alzheimers, what is its effect on the brain and is there a cure? Being a degenerative disease Alzheimers attacks the brain through exponentially greater cell death and tissue loss which results in decreased brain size and brain activity.