Dementia is the term used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected (damaged) by certain diseases and conditions (e.g. a stroke)‚ including Alzheimer’s disease. As this is a progressive disease‚ symptoms can be slowed down‚ but not cured and will always‚ gradually get worse. Regardless of the cause of the dementia‚ as it is the brain cells that are dying‚ some of the person’s abilities and functions of day to day life will progressively become more difficult. There are five
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Dementia is a progressive disorder that will affect how you’re brain functions and particularly your ability to remember‚ think and reason. Dementia usually affects older people and are approximately 820‚000 people in the UK with the disorder‚ and around 15‚000 are under the age of 65. If the dementia is recognised early enough that are a lot of things that you can be done to make the quality of life better. In a lot of dementia cases the symptoms and quality of life will progress and get worse over
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Music therapy in care for dementia Dementia is an extremely common disease among the elderly‚ with 4 million Americans currently suffering from the Alzheimer’s type alone. Figures show that 3% of people between the ages of 65-74 suffer from the disease‚ rapidly increasing to 19% for the 75-84 age bracket‚ and as high as 47% for the over 85s. Therefore‚ it is easy to see why Dementia is such a large part of many people’s lives‚ whether they are suffering from the condition themselves‚ or have
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form of dementia and the signs and symptoms. Dementia Dementia is the name for a group of symptoms which arise from different disease that affect the brain. The brain is made up of millions of brain cells which send messages to each other. These messages tell the individual everything they need to know to cope with everyday life‚ such as how to move‚ what they are seeing‚ how to speak. They also store memories and control emotions - such as laughing and crying. In someone with dementia‚ some of
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When I first think about Dementia and Alzheimer’s‚ I typically think that these terms relate more to the elderly. What really is the difference between the two? According to our text‚ dementia is a permanent loss of mental ability that is serious enough to impair daily living tasks. People who have one of the many conditions that produce dementia experience problems in memory‚ reasoning‚ and planning that dramatically affect their behavior. Alzheimer’s disease is a mild cognitive impairment which
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individuals are expected to fulfil certain responsibilities for the family and community. It also emphasis on individual’s responsibility and independency which is incompatible with care work role single mothers have to do‚ but yet the policies introduced were fundamentally based on it. Women as irresponsible or paternalism? AT the heart of the problem lies with politicians who are depicting mothers as irresponsible for not engaging in employment in order to keep their children away from poverty. This
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Alzheimer’s and Dementia really the same thing? Aysha Culliver December 13‚ 2012 5th Period Woodward Purpose I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer’s is not the person they knew. I wander to myself. Who are they then? –Bob DeMarco. What is Alzheimer ’s disease? Alzheimer ’s disease is a disease that slowly and little by little destroys brain cells. It is neither transmittable nor contagious‚ but is the single most common cause of dementia. A condition that
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LIBERTY AND PATERNALISM John Stuart Mill and Gerald Dworkin have distinctly opposing views on legal paternalism in that Mill is adamantly against any form of paternalism‚ whereas Dworkin believes that there do exist circumstances in which paternalism is justified. Both agree that paternalism is justified when the well being of another person is violated or put at risk. Mill takes on a utilitarian argument‚ explaining that allowing an individual to exercise his freedom of free choice is more beneficial
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Project Reflection Paper Autonomy is the right to have freedom in terms of pursuing your life with independence as an individual. Autonomy can be divided into three different type of categories known as moral‚personal‚ and political. Moral autonomy focuses on Kant’s idea of following the guidelines of what is morally justified rather than ensuing how or what other people are doing. Personal autonomy occurs when one is allowed to make choices for themselves and do what they please without any say
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PAYAL SHAH DEM 301 UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS AND EXPERIENCE OF DEMENTIA WHAT ARE CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF DEMENTIA Alzheimer’s disease – The possible risk factors are increasing age‚ possible genetic link‚ being female and Down’s syndrome. Symptoms: word finding problems‚ forgetting how to do everyday activities‚ confusion‚ forgetting names of people‚ places and appointments ‚ mood swings and withdrawn. Vascular dementia – possible risk factors lifestyle( lack of exercise‚ too much alcohol
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