Dementia is a disease that causes the loss of cognitive functioning and behavioral abilities to a degree that it affects a person's day-to-day life. This syndrome affects a person’s memory, language skills, problem-solving, self-management, and the ability to focus. Dementia mainly has an effect on older people, and the risk of dementia continues to increase as age increases. Some individuals...
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Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID) are the two most common types of dementia (Cunningham et al., 2015). Dementia also termed Major Neurocognitive Disorder in DSM-5 is an abnormal aging phenomenon and mostly develops later in life. The progressive deterioration of brain functioning is irreversible medical treatments could only slow down the problem. During initial and...
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More and more people have been diagnosed to have dementia. These people need special care that may be provided by their relatives or specially trained caregivers. It has been observed that women with dementia who have daughters are usually cared for by them. Catherine Ward-Griffin, Nancy Bol, and Abram Oudshoorn’s research is devoted to the mother-daughter relationships and the perspectives...
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Abstract Clinicians have, over the years, recognized and utilized the therapeutic properties of music in alleviating the psychological and behavioral symptoms of dementia for patients and their caregivers. Dementia encompasses a range of conditions and diseases characterized by the progressive impairment and deterioration of a person’s cognitive domains. Without a cure or treatment available, various non-pharmacological interventions are necessary to...
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Background Alzheimer disease is one of the major debilitating brain diseases whose effects are loss of memory and important mental functions among patients, a consideration which impacts on their social skills, ability to think and make judgment. Crooks et al. (2008) indicate that this form of dementia has varied ways of developing on different people. As such, it is imperative...
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Introduction Dementia was an illness which consisted of a group of symptoms characterized by reduction in memory, impairment in the reasoning skills and slow decline of skills required for daily living. Changes in the brain, both structural and biochemical, caused these illnesses. The condition was defined as “a syndrome due to disease of the brain, usually of a chronic or...
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Definition of Dementia and Personal Experience Dementia is not, despite widespread belief otherwise, a specific illness. Instead, Dementia is a term used to collectively describe a wide range of conditions that lead to cognitive decline, memory impairment, and other brain disorders [1]. The most prevalent form of Dementia is Alzheimer’s Disease, which is a debilitating illness characterized by progressive and...
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Dementia is considered a general term for impairments in mostly remembering, moving, and thinking that serve as obstacles in a person’s everyday activity. However, the term is also strongly associated with the following problems: reasoning, problem-solving, attention, and communication. Furthermore, dementia is extended to numerous diseases with the most accurately identified symptoms. Overall, dementia outcomes stem from its negative influence...
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Caregivers are extremely important figures in all societies and look after the senior citizens who are esteemed individuals of the community. The Journals of Gerontology state, “There are 16,840 nursing homes in the United States with 1.56 million residents. The majority of these residents (70.8%) have some form of memory impairment” (Tornatore 2004). For some caregivers, both in and out...
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The article “Co-designing with people living with dementia” Paul A. Rodgers [2018] wants to draw attention to the misunderstanding of the people living with dementia by presenting a project from Alzheimer Scotland to design a tartan. It puts the focus on people living with dementia regaining “their self-esteem, identity and dignity” [Rodgers, 2018, p189] in the community, to change the...
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“Health care professionals have an ethical obligation to protect life and to relieve suffering”. Like other health professionals, registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) follow a code of ethics. The principles and standards of the Code of Ethics for the Nutrition and Dietetics Profession encompasses non-maleficence, autonomy, beneficence, and justice. “Dietitians are expected to exercise professional judgement and practice dietetics based on...
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Dementia is a condition in which there is a continuous decline in cognitive function and is most prevalent with the ageing population. Within England, dementia is most common amongst people living in East Sussex with prevalence of 13000. Suggested by the local review there is a lack of support and care available to patients with dementia; this is having a...
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Dementia is overall term that is used to describe various wide ranges of diseases and/or conditions that are often diagnosed by the loved one or caregivers of a patient suffering from signs and symptoms of a decline in memory, language, and problem-solving skills. This condition affects the patient’s thoughts, responses, feelings and all aspects of life. Individuals diagnosed with dementia...
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Dementia effects approximately 50 million people world-wide with almost 10 million new cases every year. It is a syndrome which is the deterioration of cognitive functions that is not considered normal deterioration that comes with age. It effects calculation, learning, language, memory, thinking, judgement, and comprehension among other things (World Health Organisation. 2019). The difference between dementia and normal aging...
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Vascular dementia іѕ а common form оf dementia, second tо Alzheimer's that іѕ the most common reason fоr dementia affecting the population оf the world. Thіѕ type оf dementia uѕuаllу has bееn observed tо set іn, after а person has suffered frоm а stroke. Genetics and inheritance аlѕо plays а role іn the onset оf this condition. Thе primary reason...
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In this essay I will look at the different types of dementia and how they can affect an individuals physical and mental health, their wellbeing and quality of life. Another thing it will cover is how the care is improved by the workers if they have a good understanding and knowledge of the effects of dementia. The one cause of...
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Alzheimer's disease- an abnormal protein surrounds brain cells and another protein damages their central structure. In time brain cells gets lost and starts to die. Vascular dementia- is when nerve cells in brain doesn’t receive enough oxygen from blood the nerve cells dies. Mixed dementia- is when Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia is together. Lewy bodies- is when a little...
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Dementia is a progressive disorder of the mental process caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes and impaired reasoning (McDonnell, 2013). According to Alzheimer's Society (2007), there are currently an estimated 683,597 people with dementia in the UK (Alzheimer's Society, 2007). The aim of this essay is to analyse the spectrum of needs in...
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1. Abstract The aim of this study is to understand the perceptions and experiences of trained volunteers in caring for patients in dementia-palliative ward in Singapore. Methods A descriptive qualitative research study will be conducted in Assisi Hospice (AH). Purposive sampling will be used to recruit 20 participants. The data will be collected through face-to-face semi-structured interviews and will be...
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It began with the little things. Firstly, she forgot my name. Next, she sent my mum three birthday cards. She then was forced to give up playing the church organ since she played too many or too few verses, or even the completely wrong tune. My family and I could only do our best to adapt and support my Auntie...
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Introduction Dementia is not one specific disease but is rather a group of conditions that can be characterised by the loss of at least two vital brain functions such as memory loss and judgement. The symptoms of which can be substantial, including but not limited to forgetfulness, a limited set of social skills and long- or short-term memory loss. Alzheimer’s...
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The aim of the literature review is to explore how music therapy impacts the behaviour of elderly people with dementia experiencing agitation. The term ‘dementia’ describes a set of symptoms that may include memory loss, mood and behaviour changes, reasoning and language (Alzheimer Society, 2015). These symptoms occur when the brain is damaged by certain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease...
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Dementia is considered to be as a cognitive disease, which arises due to neurodegeneration of the nerve cells of brain. In these specific condition neurons of the central nervous system has been reported for their neural coating with different kinds of proteins. As a result, an unexplained neural damage has occurred. This condition is prevalent in older age when body...
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