Unit 13 – Understand the Process and Experience of Dementia Outcome 1

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Outcome 1.1 There are many different causes of Dementia Syndrome, these include; Alzheimer’s Disease (the most common) Vascular Dementia (which is usually after a stroke or several small strokes), Dementia with Lewy bodies, fronto-temporal dementia which usually affects the personality and behaviour before memory, and rarer caused of dementia are Creutzfeldt-Jakon Disease., multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, parkinson’s disease and Huntingtons disease. Dementia is a term used to describe a range of diseases that affect memory, behaviour and motor skills. Dementia is caused when the brain cells are damaged. The damage interferes with the brains cells ability to communicate with one another. 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. 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

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