Unit 49;Understand and meet the nutritional requirements of individuals with dementia. 1) Understand the nutritional needs that are unique to individuals with dementia. 1.1) Describe how cognitive, functional, and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating, drinking and nutrition; Symptoms associated with dementia, can have detrimental effect on individuals, if they are not addressed and resolved. In some individuals, cognitive impairments interfere with the sequences and patterns associated with completing tasks, so, remembering how to use items such as cutlery, drinking cups etc, and the order, or way in which to use them are lost. It can mean that tasks such as making a cup of tea, or a sandwich can no longer be completed.
Erica Douglas 1st 2nd period * Dysphagia means having difficulty in swallowing and can even experience pain while swallowing. Some people might be completely unable to swallow or could have trouble safely swallowing liquids, foods, or saliva. When that happens, eating becomes a harder. Dysphagia makes it difficult to take in enough calories and fluids to nourish the body and can lead to additional serious medical problems. Dysphagia happens when there is a problem with the neural control or the structures involved in any part of your swallowing process.
2. Explain how poor nutrition can contribute to an individual’s experience of dementia. Poor nutrition can make the symptoms of dementia worse, increase risk of more frequent infections requiring use of antibiotics. Malnutrition also affects immune system making it difficult to fight an infection. Effects of poor nutrition:- • Higher risk of infection • Reduced wound healing • Dermatological problems • Constipation • Disturbed sleeping pattern • Weight loss/gain Dementia can greatly affect a person's relationship to food and eating.
Anxiety disorders: Is a feeling of unease, such a worry or fear, that can be mild or severe. Psychotic disorders: are mental illnesses that are characterised by psychotic symptoms, which can generally be described as a loss of contact with reality. Substance related disorders: are disorders of dependence, intoxication, abuse, and substance withdrawal caused by various substances, both legal and illegal. Eating disorders: Any of a range of psychological disorders characterised by abnormal or disturbed eating habits such as anorexia nervous. Cognitive disorders: Are a category of mental health disorders that primary affect learning,memory, perception, and problem solving and include; amnesia, dementia and delirium.
Wernicke-Korsakoff’s Syndrome Jane Jennings Liberty University Wernicke-Korsakoff’s Syndrome Abstract Thiamin is an essential vitamin required for proper functioning of brain. Its deficiency leads to two serious diseases known as Wernicke’s encephalopathy and Korsakoff syndrome. Initially, Wernicke’s encephalopathy is caused but if it remains untreated or inadequately treated, it leads to a more severe condition that is, Korsakoff syndrome. These diseases occur most commonly in those persons who consume alcohol excessively and are malnutrition as excessive alcohol consumption leads to less absorption of nutrients from the food taken in. Major symptoms of these diseases include confusion, ataxia, double vision, retrograde amnesia,
It is the responsibility of the clinician to interview the patient and determine a correct diagnosis and treatment. Although, we know that Marla has underlying issues, which require therapy, the first objective is to treat the symptoms she has currently. Dysthymia is a particularly insidious disorder, some people may recover, but some continue to suffer their entire life (Faces of Abnormal Psychology, 2007). Psychological disorders do not discriminate they are equal opportunist
302). Therapists are careful treating someone with BPD because of the lack of trust that sufferers feel, so it may make it difficult to form a good relationship with their therapist. Some people seek out medications to ease some symptoms or support groups, individual/family therapy, or hospitalization if that person is suicidal or a threat to their self. One of the more well-known treatments is Psychotherapy, or what they call ‘talk’ therapy. This includes Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mentalization- Based, Transference Focused Psychotherapy, Schema-Focused Psychotherapy, General Psychiatric Management, Systems training for Emotional Predictability and Problem
Schizophrenia, the various forms of depression, and the anxiety states produced no readily detectable loss of nerve cells or other obvious changes in brain anatomy and therefore were classified as functional, or not based on biology. Often, a special social stigma was attached to the so-called functional mental illnesses because they were said to be "all in a patient's mind." This notion was accompanied by the suggestion that the illness may have been put into the patient's mind by his or her parent History concept to Borderline personality disorder 1938 an analyst called Albert Stern gave some weight to the borderline personality disorder we know today by identifying patient’s a typical (BPD) patients Paris, (2008). Over reaction to criticism,
Within various religious and cultural communities, however, same-sex attractions and behaviors are still viewed as pathological. Yet the professional communities of counseling and psychology no longer diagnose a client who has attractions to people of the same sex as mentally disordered. To refer a client to someone who engages in conversion therapy communicates to the client that his/her same-sex attractions and behaviors are disordered and, therefore, need to be changed. This contradicts the dictates of the 2005 ACA Code of
The theory behind Tourette syndrome is that the disorder is the result of excessive dopaminergic innervations of the striatum and associated limbic cortex. Current hypothesis also states that the disorder is related to abnormal basal ganglia-thalamus-cortex feedback circuit. Tics are usually treated with neuroleptics that block the D2 receptors, the same treatment as used with schizophrenia. As previously stated the drawback to these neuroleptics can include diabetes, weight gain, and fat regulation trouble [ (Pinel, 2009)