Dementia Essay

Parkinson’s is the second leading disorder affecting older adults; Alzheimer’s being the first. This disease is characterized by motor irregularities that include tremors, slowness, and rigidness. There are not only motor symptoms associated with the disease; there are also non-motor symptoms that include difficulties in the area of cognition, emotions, and sleeping (Eccles, Murray, and Simpson, 2011). Unfortunately, this disease is also a progressive disorder, meaning that as time goes on the…

• Early stages of Alzheimer’s : 1. Problems with familiar tasks: The person faces problems doing simple tasks like forgetting recently learned information or forgetting important dates and events, in addition to asking for the same information repeatedly, and that they might forget that they made an entire meal or to serve it. 2. Misplacing items: The person seems to misplace items quite often, they tend to lose stuff and not remember the last place they saw them at. • Middle stages of…

Motor Neurone Disease (MND) By Ryan Renshaw o60 MND (Motor Neurone Disease rosis (ALS) and Lou amy otrop Gehrig's disease. MND is a rare neurological condition that causes the degeneration of the motor system. It is progressive and worsens every time and reduces the life expectancy with most people dying within 5 years of having it. Motor Neurone Disease begins with the akness of the muscles in the hands, feet and voice. Some symptoms of MND can be muscle aches, cramps, twitching, clumsiness,…

Angela is a 60-year-old single woman who has a condition named Glaucoma. According to the National Eye Institute Glaucoma is defined “as a group of eye disorders that lead to progressive damage to the optic nerve. People with glaucoma can lose nerve tissue, resulting in vision loss”. Angela encountered this condition a few years ago and she has been receiving constant treatments from her optometrist. Her optometrist recommended some medications to help relieve the pain and prescribed sun glasses…

Jimmie G’s problem is that he has anterograde explicit declarative amnesia. He cannot make any new memories, meaning his explicit memory, or his ability to consciously recollect memories, is only good for memories made before his injury presumably. His declarative memory is also damaged, as evidenced by his inability to remember the correct year and his inability to recognize that he is no longer 19. He can still access his implicit memory as evidenced by the fact that he remembers the routine…

Presbyopia Presbyopia, which quite literally means ‘”aging eye” or “old eye”, is a very common age-related eye condition that can make it very difficult for people to see things up close. When presbyopia begins to develop, usually around the age of forty, you’ll find that the natural lens and areas surrounding these parts of your eyes will have become slightly rigid and in some cases, too rigid to focus from a distance to close up and then back again. Although this inability to see images…

Parkinson’s disease (PD), a chronic neurodegenerative disorder, “affects over four million people worldwide” Dorsey et al, 2007. Classically, it is characterized by its motor symptoms, such as: “rigidity, tremor, postural unbalance, and bradykinesia/aki- nesia" Braak, 2003; Jankovic 2008. However, just recently has its non-motor implications been observed and taken into consideration. People are less aware of the degeneration in the brain involving non-dopamine nerve cells that also occur and…

As we live our lives, at some point and time we will be faced with a conflict that really affects our outlook on life. It shows us what is really important and what is just petty. The thing that conflicted my life recently was being faced with the fact that my grandmother has parkinson's disease. When faced with a conflict it is obvious that we want to try to solve it or do what we can, especially when it is someone that means so much to us. Knowing someone with this disease, I felt compelled to…

1) What important information can be obtained from a neurologically-impaired patient while taking a thorough history? Important information that can be obtained during a thorough history of a neurologically-impaired patient is the speed of onset of condition and the pattern of progression. The patient can describe the symptoms through each stage of the onset from acute, subacute and the chronic stage. The pattern of progression can be found with the patient determining whether there symptoms…

Dementia According to alz.org, there are “more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, 1 in 3 seniors die with Alzheimer’s or another dementia, and every 66 seconds someone in the United States develops the disease.” Alzheimer’s is just one of the many forms of dementia. And what is dementia exactly? Dementia is when a person is unable to think, remember, or reason to the point where it affects one’s daily life. Background Before dementia was even known by that term, in the 6th…