Dementia Awareness- Unit 237 Outcome 1-Understand what dementia is Q1- Explain what is meant by the term “Dementia”; A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. People know it as a disease that affects the mind, which unfortunately affects the elderly. It comes in various forms, for example Alzimers, Parkinson’s and Hunting’s disease and is often a progression from a stroke or develops overtime. Q2-Describe the key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia; The different parts of the brain that is most affected by dementia are the temporal lobe is responsible foe vision, memory, language, hearing and learning, the Frontal lobe is responsible for decision making, problem solving, control behavior and emotions, the Parietal lobe is responsible for sensory information from the body, also where letters are formed, putting things in order and spatial awareness, the Occipital lobe is responsible for processing information related to vision, the Cerebrum lobe is biggest part of the Brain its role is memory, attention, thought, and our consciousness, senses and movement and the last part is the Hippocampus which is responsible for memory forming, organizing and storing and emotions. Q3- Explain why depression, delirium and age related memory impairment may be mistaken for dementia; Depression, delirium and age related memory impairment is all symptoms of dementia and this may be why people mistake them for dementia.
The team would send out minutes from the meeting with detailed notes of decisions and progress made within the meeting. Additionally, the notes would contain the goals and objectives of the group prior to the next meeting. These notes would be emailed to all members of the group as well as posted on the team website. The team also utilized email and texting to communicate with one another throughout the week. Considering the busy schedules and personal lives of all team members I feel that we did well to meet on a weekly basis.
When the cells are damaged in a certain region of the brain, that region is unable to function normally. Different types of dementia are associated with particular types of cell damage in the different regions of the brain. 1.2 The types of memory impairments that people with dementia commonly experience are short term memory, forgetting names, people and places. Poor concentration, forgetting common facts, becoming disorientated, confusion within new surroundings, difficulty learning new skills and retaining new skills. Dementia suffers even become unable to recognise familiar people, and even themselves in a mirror as they are unable to grasps that both their loved ones and themselves have aged, also they forget times, dates and years and can even forget they have eaten.
Alzheimers Disease Alzheimers disease is becoming a greater concern every day. “In the early 1900’s Alois Alzheimer, a German physician, described a middle-aged patient who experienced progressive problems with memory, language and behavior. After the patient died Alzheimer identified two changes in brain tissue that are essential features of the disease that bears Alzheimer's name” (Facts for health). Alzheimers is a progressive brain disease that is irreversible. It destroys basic memory skills and ultimately the capacity to do their daily routine.
Good communication skills are essential for childcare professionals, because they help them to develop relationships and demonstrate that they care. We communicate with parents, professionals and children. Ways in which we do this are:- • Daily Diaries – all children have a daily diary. Their key person will write in what the child has ate and drank, how long they have slept for, when their nappies have been changed or if they have had any accidents and what activities they have participated in throughout the day. The staff will also write in any messages for the parents, e.g.
There was a lot of work around the house that needed to be done. This “second shift”, as they called it, included laundry, cooking, cleaning, and other general chores. Fed up with doing all of the work, Nancy suggested that she would cook Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, while Evan cooked Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays. They would either share or go out to eat on Sundays. While Evan Agreed to this, he would often times “forget” to pick up ingredients, which
Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care Unit DEM 301 Understand the process and experience of dementia. Outcome1 | Understand the neurology of dementia | Outcome1.1 | Describe a range of causes of dementia syndromeDementia is not a single disease, but rather a non-specific illness syndrome (i.e., set of signs and symptoms)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) usually presents with loss of memory, especially for learning new information and later behaviour that challenges. Symptoms commonly include depression, apathy, agitation, disinhibition, psychosis (delusions and hallucinations), wandering, aggression, incontinence and altered eating habits.Vascular dementia (VaD) can present after an acute vascular event (for example, a stroke) planning problems, gait disturbance and apraxia (loss of ability to perform previously learned tasks). Behaviours that challenge are also common in VaD, with depression and apathy seen most frequently.Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is characterised by recurrent visual hallucinations, fluctuating cognitive disturbance and motor features of parkinsonism. Associated features in DLB are falls, disturbances of consciousness, autonomic dysfunction and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorderFrontotemporal dementia (FTD) usually presents with language disturbance and/or behavioural difficulties (either disinhibition or apathy),Korsakoff's syndrome is a brain disorder that is usually associated with heavy drinking over a long period.
YEAR 8 INDIVIDUALISED TASKS Read the following instructions carefully!!! Over the course of each topic you will be expected to complete a number of the tasks from those listed below. All work can be completed in your exercise book or on paper. If you use paper it MUST be stuck into your book otherwise we will not accept it when you hand it in. The deadline will always be straight after the last lesson of each topic and your teacher will remind you of this, but you should be completing tasks as you go through.
You wake up each day to start your journey into life or work. You wake your kids for school every day and yet, sometimes they get up and sometimes you have to coax them into starting their day. You have the same students today as you did yesterday, but with subtle differences, some don’t show up for class, most wear different clothes, they sit in different chairs and arrive at different time each day.
DEM 201 1.3 Due to Dementia been a wide vast illness many different categories it can be confused with an individual has having depression, delirium and memory impairment, due to depression which could makes the individual lack appetite, isolation and non-commutative as well as an individual could be delirious due to medication side effects or other related illness and memory impairments could just be down to a stroke, low IQ or just getting older. DEM 201.2 2.2/2.3 Social model of dementia is a vast category of all different types of illness which is vascular, korsakoff, Huntington’s , frontal-temporal dementia, picks etc. Dementia is viewed in today’s society as a disability due to the individual been memory impaired, they can’t make