Dementia

Sagado is part of the university of memphis. His area of study is clinical psychology. The second author is Jeffrey K Zuber. Zuber studies at the university of tennessee health science center. Zuber has done many other pieces which include his work on dementia caregivers as well as Anxiety, Social Support, and Physical Health. The third author of this source is Marshall J. Graney. Graney, also wrote a piece about The cost-effectiveness of a behavior intervention with caregivers of patients…

Dementia is a progressive disease of the brain over a long period of time. Therefore its progression is much more subtle. Delirium often involves an acute event or change, such as an overdose of medication. This also helps to affect duration Given the progressive loss of neural function in dementia over a long time, dementia would be stable over the day relative to delirium where some acute insult to the brain…

Alzheimer’s disease is an affliction that many families and individuals all over the world have to endure. As the individual slowly loses their memory and their ability to recognize themselves and others, they succumb to the disease soon after. Elderly people are most often associated with this disease, but a significant population under the age of 40 has shown symptoms of this disease. The good news is that people, especially young people, can take precautionary measures to avoid being…

from birth, or it can happen later in life. There are three main types of autism spectrum: asperger’s syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder, and autistic disorder. Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that causes memory loss and problems with thinking and behavior. It is the most common form of dementia. Alzheimer’s mainly affects people who are 65 and older, but up to 5 percent of people with the disease…

factors are based mostly around lifestyle choices, making it seem that there are ways that one can prevent the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. 2. Respite Care (p.125): This concept is crucial for the family and caregivers of those helping Alzheimer or dementia patients. It is important because it allows those in care positions to get deserved breaks and prevent or yield the stress that comes with that care. That stress…

Alzheimer's is a disease that a lot of people get when they are old, most people that have it are in the ages of 65 and older. A lot of cases of dementia come from alzheimer's almost between 60-80 cases. Alzheimer’s normally hits older people just randomly because they do not catch the early onsets of the disease. You do not just randomly get it most the time you start with an early set of alzheimer’s and this process starts between the age of someone's early 40’s and 50’s. Alzheimer's is a…

The book that I chose to read for this class was Still Alice by Lisa Genova. The reason that I chose to read this book out of all three of our choices was because a movie is actually currently in production called Still Alice which is based directly off this book. I was actually quite surprised to learn that this was Genova’s first book because it is so well written. Book Review: To start off, this book is about an older woman named Alice Howland who is professor at the prestigious Harvard…

treatment. However, obtaining informed consent can be challenging, especially if an older adult has a cognitive problem such as dementia. According to Gastmans & Milisen (2006), “Even mentally incompetent older persons should be involved as much as possible in the decision-making procedure, since the loss of cognitive functioning—usually a gradual process as in dementia—does not necessarily mean that people can no longer make their own choices and decisions” (p. 150). Despite the loss of…

Because the most significant cause of Alzheimer’s disease is age, a sufferer is likely to have inherited the disease if they develop it at a particularly young age, even though these gene mutations are rare. Alzheimer’s disease has also shown to be inherited through a more complex pattern rather than a single gene mutation. For example, the gene ‘apolipoprotein E’ (which is found in chromosome 19) transports lipoproteins, vitamins and cholesterol into the lymph system and consequently into the…

Title Alzheimer’s Disease Introduction Alzheimer's disease is known to be the most common type of dementia and accounts for roughly ⅔ of all dementia cases. Alzheimer’s disrupts all aspects of memory, as well as thinking and behavior of everyday life. Alzheimer's affects over 4.5 million people throughout the states and is typically found in people over the age of 60. Etiology Well many test have been done and many experiments have been tested scientist still are unclear of the cause of…