Caregiving and dementia

Introduction Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a rare, progressive brain disorder that causes memory loss. FTD describes a range of diseases that often start with changes in behavior, speech, and decision-making processes. As FTD progresses, it affects short-term memory. Over time, FTD causes the frontal and temporal anterior lobes of the brain to shrink. These are the parts of the brain that control behavior and speech. There are three main types of FTD: Behavioral variant FTD. This is the most…

The purpose of this paper is to review the prevalence of older women in the prison system and how they are affected by Alzheimer disease while incarcerated, which hinder them to navigate the social support and reintegration into the community once they are released. Moreover, a case study will be presented describing the symptoms and how it affects an individual as well as investigate the theory that support this population with this disease. Furthermore, the dominant social discourse on…

Looking at Dementia-Alzheimer’s a Neurocognitive Disorder Alzheimer’s is the most common type of Dementia that is found and is considered to be a disease because there is no cure for it at the moment but treatment can help control some of the symptoms. In the article “Alzheimer’s disease” by Kaj Blennow, Mony J de Leon, and Henrik Zetterberg the authors stated that Alzheimer’s is the most common case seen in dementia and accounts for 50-60% of all the dementia cases. The onset of Alzheimer’s…

It is widely known that music can affect us in profound ways; it can make us burst into tears, make us dance joyously to its beat, cheer us up when we feel downhearted, or intensify our happiness in moments of celebration. Music has the ability to take us back in time to distant personal memories, both moments that we would like forget and remember forever. Most of us get attached to music since the earlier years in life and we believe to understand how marvelous it can be, but only a few of us…

Being forgetful once in a while is not an abnormal occurrence; however, memory loss is a much more significant generative characteristic of dementia. Short term memory is usually affected first although the person may continue to have remarkable long term memory as far as early childhood. Absorbing new information such as the name of a new housemate can be unattainable. A person diagnosed…

that she was not receiving the help and care she asked for. Aside from the initial scare she had during the neck surgery, she has had doctors apparently turn her down or threaten to drop her if she asked follow up questions regarding things like her dementia medication, or side effects she has been having, and the ways in which doctors and staff members have treated her. She has, in turn, gone to see a lawyer regarding some of these things, who has told her that this seems like more than just…

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. Dementia is a cognitive disorder with two forms: neurodegenerative and vascular disorders. Neurodegenerative is a deterioration of the mind and vascular disorders are caused by a decreased blood supply to the brain.(Lewis et al., 2014, p. 1444) With Alzheimer’s disease, the brain starts to change with age and brain transmitters start to get covered with plaque, get tangled, louse connections, and cause death in some transmitters. These…

primary goal is to improve temporal effects of the brain, and help those who have trouble getting their body to listen to them when it tells them to walk. There was a series of fourteen studies, with a wide variety of debilitating injuries such as; dementia, stroke, Huntington’s disease, spinal cord injury, traumatic head injury, multiple sclerosis, and hydrocephalus. Although the journal does admit to quite a bit of short term improvement, it seems that they did not have enough participants…

Memory loss is something that occurs more often than not. Rather it be short-term or long-term. It could be as simple as not remembering where you last set your phone down or something as huge as not remembering you have children. Memory loss can be caused by many things, such as trauma, sleep deprivation, diseases, etc. The most common disease( known for memory loss) is called Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is a mental disease that causes you to lose memory & often takes place in those of middle…

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder caused by damage in one or more parts of the brain, resulting in deficits in expressive and receptive language and can affect other language-based skills. Damage to the brain that results in aphasia can be caused by several events or neurological conditions, but the most common cause of aphasia is a cerebrovascular accident, or a stroke. People of all ages can acquire aphasia, but the most common sufferers are middle-aged to elderly individuals who have…