Dementia

Music has the power to transporting us back to a particular experience, memory, or era without that being its intended purpose. The documentary, Alive Inside, provided a look into how the brain’s reaction to music for nursing home residents with dementia provided an alternative therapy by allowing them to temporarily regain the memories and movement of their younger years. At the suggestion of Dan Cohen, social worker, nursing home volunteer and non-profit organizer of Music & Memory, the film’s…

rule-out, and the patients qualifying for Amyloid PET imagining, are simply a diagnosis from clinical findings (McCance & Huether, 2013). Genetic Contributions Alzheimer 's Dementia has two classifications: early-onset or late-onset type. Researchers have not identified genes that contribute to late-onset Alzheimer 's Dementia (National Institute on Aging [NIA], 2014). While researchers believe that extrinsic factors such as lifestyle and environment are driving forces in late-onset Alzheimer…

inflammation by gluten protein affects most chronic diseases, memory loss, dementia symptoms, and Alzheimer’s. ("Why Is Gluten Bad for You? Gluten Side Effects Include Risk of Dementia.") The heroine's family is only using the prescribed medication. That is not enough to help the Alzheimer’s disease patient. A gluten-free diet could be a good method to remove the risk factor of inflammation in brain cells which causes dementia symptoms. In the other hand, there is an opposite opinion about…

management therapy in patients 65 years and older diagnosed with Dementia living in long-term care facility with disruptive behavior PICO Research Question Are Patients 65-older patients diagnosed with dementia admitted to long-term facility (P) who receive behavior management therapy(I) compared no behavior management therapy (C) at decreased risk for disruptive behavior (O) P: Patient 65 and older patients with diagnoses of dementia admitted to the long-term facility I: Behavior management…

objective of this article is to study the differences in dementia rates between black and white individuals aged 70-79 and justify these differences in terms of an individual’s socioeconomic status which includes factors such as, income, financial adequacy, education, literacy, and health related components (Yaffe et al., 2013). The experiment began in 1997 and was conducted for a span of 12 years, it focused on individuals between 70-79 without dementia (Yaffe et al., 2013). There were a total…

those of immigrant populations such as people of West African origin. Thus, according to Ndoro and Marimirofa (ibid) the problem of dementia in the UK is likely to grow significantly. The same will apply to people of West African origin who are now living longer and not returning to their countries of origin. Citing Ratcliffe (1997), Ndoro and Marimirofa define ethnicity as ‘a communal sense of attachment to the past, sometimes expressed as memories of a shared past.’ Thus ethnicity involves a…

decrease the risk of undesirable consequences related with advancing aging (Myers, Prakash, Froelicher, Do, Partington, Atwood, 2002, pg. 794). Advanced aging or senescence, has been known to increase the risk of chronic conditions and diseases such as dementia. Over the recent decades, life expectancy has increased leading to an increase in age-related diseases. An increasing number of studies have found that lifestyle factors such as physical activity have a beneficial impact cognitive…

feature of Alzheimer’s or dementia is a progressive degeneration of mental function. Receiving the diagnosis can change the course of the patient’s life, and the family’s life. Numerous support groups are in place to help patients and caregivers of people with dementia, yet there area still great effects on their lives. The losses associated with this disease are not solely physical and mental. Social wellness is affected for many people affected by this disease. Many dementia patients need to…

This essay is about Parkinson’s disease and dementia. My grandfather was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and within a year developed dementia that sometimes goes along with Parkinson’s. I was part of his “Care Team”. Although he lived with the disease for six years and I saw the way it progressed and how it affected him, my family never really knew why or how it was happening. The following information will discuss the reasons for Parkinson’s disease and how the disease progresses. Parkinson’s…

age of 65, with higher prevalence in females than males [5;37](Hirtz et al., 2007;Ballard et al., 2011). There is also a strong genetic component that indicates increased risk of dementia in individuals expressing the E4 isoform…