Dementia is a syndrome associated with an ongoing decline of the brain and its abilities. This includes problems with: * memory loss * thinking speed * mental agility * language * understanding * judgment People with dementia can lose interest in their usual activities, and have problems controlling their emotions. They may also find social situations challenging, lose interest in socializing, and aspects of their personality may change. A person with dementia may lose empathy (understanding and compassion), they may see or hear things that other people do not (hallucinations), or they may make false claims or statements. As dementia affects a person's mental abilities, they may find planning and organizing difficult.
The memory impairment may result in lack of attention, forgetting language, forgetting names and identity of friends and relatives and lose of ability to solve problems. confusion another effect of dementia, and also disorientation in which the patient forgets the direction, the time (date, month and year) and everything about the self. 1.2 Describe the types of memory impairment commonly experienced by individuals with dementia: dementia is a condition of the brain which causes a
Outcome 1 - Be able to communicate with individuals with dementia 1.1 Describe how memory impairment can affect the ability of an individual with dementia to use verbal language. There are many types of dementia with differing causes. Some cause loss of language early on, such as a stroke in the speech areas. Others may have a gradual decline with the service user having difficulty finding or using appropriate words or being able to put together complete sentences anymore. It’s important you speak clearly and make sentences as simple to understand as possible when giving a service user with dementia instructions.
Key functions affected by dementia are: distortion of the visual field, the perception of size, colour and shape of objects may not be recognised by the brain from what the eyes are actually seeing. Temporal lobe Located on the sides of the brain at about the same level as the ears. Key functions affected by dementia are: hearing, language, the formation of memories, recognising people and places. The Cerebellum Located at the base of the brain under the Occipital lobe. Key functions affected are balance and muscle co-ordination The Hippocampus Located in the temporal lobe of the brain.
This mainly occurs because people do not pay close enough attention to the details around them. Loftus article illustrates information about different types of memory incidences that can typically lead to falsification. For example, scrambled memories occur when people mistake details when they are retrieving a certain story. This becomes a problem because people will make add or remove information that
Damage to the amygdala or hippocampus causes loss of emotions and memory respectively. By removing part of H.M.’s temporal lobe which meant some parts of the amygdala and hippocampus, he suffered severe amnesia. He could remember things that happened a longtime ago and even his name meaning that his long-term childhood memory was intact but short-term memory was severely affected. By learning new motor skills but not conscious of them, it showed that the brain has different parts that controlled memory. According to me, H.M.’s inability to recall the words was a problem of consolidation as well as a long term memory problem.
Outcome 1. 1. Interaction: The application of social skills and the awareness of the needs of others . An individual is someone requiring care or support . Influences such as: • memory loss • losing recall • inability to speak • disorientation • misinterpretation of information • variations in lucidity 2.
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. 1.3 Individuals with dementia, especially in the more advanced stages struggle to understand, process and retain information and instructions, so need to be given clear concise information where keywords and short prompts are used, and trying to avoid overloading them with too much information in order to avoid further confusion. Also the individuals who maybe are able to process and retain
The person doesn’t exactly progress from one stage to another in order, a certain stage may be skipped or symptoms from multiple stages may be shown at one time. Changes in cognition also occur, “cognition refers to the ability of the brain to process, store, retrieve, and use information” (Ignatavicius, Workman). This assesses the person with Alzheimers for the lack of their certain abilities which may include: “attention, concentration, judgment, and perception, learning, memory, communication, language, and speed of information processing” (Alzheimer's Disease Fact
| In this essay I have identified a student with a learning disability which is dyslexia. In this essay I am writing about the important issues surrounding dyslexia and how it affects students from learning if it goes undiagnosed. Dyslexia is a neurological problem of a genetic origin which makes understanding of language skills extremely difficult. A description of the condition is the failure to learn to read, write or spell despite instruction. (Dyslexia, 1998), “believes that in the 1980’s, the definition of dyslexia was an exclusionary one.