Dementia

Dementia is truly an issue that has plagued the entire planet. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2015, 47.5 million people around the globe are living with dementia. A large proportion (58%) of these people are living in low and middle income countries, by 2050 this proportion is projected to rise up to 71%. Many people are living with the thought that dementia is a disease, however it is not. In actuality, dementia is made up of a number of different diseases. The…

Dementia is an ‘umbrella’ term for a range of cognitive decline disorders, Dementia focuses on the ongoing deterioration of a human’s cognitive function (Chertkow, 2013). One commonly known form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, there are mixed findings on whether physical exercise being a preventative measure of dementia. Therefore, this essay will be considering how physical exercise can be beneficial to the prevention of dementia occurring later on in a human’s life. There…

TO DECREASE AGITATION AND ANXIETY IN DEMENTIA PATIENTS 7 Music Therapy to Decrease Agitation and Anxiety in Dementia Patients Overview of Agitation and Anxiety in Patients with Dementia Dementia Dementia is a major neurocognitive disorder that impairs cognitive and intellectual ability, memory, language, reasoning and judgments, which can interfere with daily functioning (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Symptoms of dementia differ among patients; however, the…

experiences cognitive and behavioral difficulties such as dementia, typically within the older generation the hospital stay becomes much more complex. It is not un common for patients suffering from dementia to become violent at some point in their hospital visit. Nurses practice patient safety every day, however they also have a duty to protect themselves and other medical staff. Physical restraints have been used in cases with dementia patients becoming violent to others or if they were trying…

on the adjustment process of Vietnamese family caregivers of elderly with dementia in the urban area. There are different reasons for me to conduct this study, including intellectual and personal reasons. Those reasons combine together to motivate me to achieve new knowledge on my research topic. Intellectual motivation Academically, dementia has been a major problem among elderly in the world as well as in Vietnam. Dementia, a chronic clinical syndrome, refers to “a progressive loss of…

The challenges of coping with aging and dementia in Singapore Dementia is a clinical syndrome caused by a number of organic brain disorders that affect memory, thinking and behaviour. This disease of being ’forgetful’ is a leading contributor to disability and need for care among older people, resulting in increased cost to the society. Therefore, dementia has an enormous economic impact on health care and social service systems ($2.4 billion spent in Singapore for 2014) (Paul et al., 2016).…

Application 1: Locating and Critically Analyzing Primary Research Article One The article “Dementia carer education and patient behavior disturbance. International journal of geriatric psychiatry conducted” by Coen, R., O 'Boyle, C., Coakley, D., & Lawor, B. (1999). is on the topic of dementia carer. The researchers stated that the objective was to evaluate the impact of dementia Carer Education Program on carer quality of life, wellbeing, and burden. The study took place in a Hospital…

INTRODUCTION Both alcohol use and depressive symptoms are prevalent in adolescents and young adults (1–3). Additionally, several studies report the co-occurrence of alcohol use and depressive symptoms (4–6). For example, of young depressive adolescents under grade 10, 39% female vs. 14.8% male have ever used alcohol (7). Given co-occurrence of underage alcohol use and early depressive symptoms, disentangling the sequence of alcohol initiation (AI) and depressive symptom onset (DSO) will provide…

Alzheimer's disease was named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer; however, Dr. Alois Alzheimer was not the only person to contribute to the discovery of the neurological disease, Alzheimer's. According to Dennis J. Selkoe in "Amyloid Protein and Alzheimer's Disease," he states, "Even before the time of Alzheimer, pathologists knew that the human cerebral cortex sometimes contained variable numbers of spherical plaques" (252-253). So, the question is, what did Dr. Alois Alzheimer contribute to the…

Parkinson’s disease is a hazardous disease and one of the most common diseases in US, about one million people live with it. It is a progressive movement disorder which means that the symptoms may get worse over time. Till now the cause is not identified or known .There is no cure but there are treatments to reduce the symptoms by medications and surgery. WHAT IS PARKINSON’S DISEASE? It is a brain disorder affecting brain cells in the brain. Parkinson’s affects neurons in an…