Dementia

1.2.2 Characteristics There are four stages of dementia with respect to their progressive patterns of cognitive and functional impairments. Pre-dementia: Pre -dementia is also called as the mild cognitive dementia, which is the first stages of dementia that is the earliest stage of dementia. In this stage, the person’s brain changes have been happening for a long time and the symptoms in this stage are just a beginning to show. The MMSE scores in this stage vary between 27 and 30. Early stage:…

1.2 The areas of the brain that are affected by dementia are the frontal lobe, this is the section of the brain that controls our behaviour,movement, personality and our surroundings The parietal Lobe controls the language we use,recognition of places and people. Our occipital Lobe controls our eyesight and our ability to see, there is also the temporal lobe, that controls our speech , hearing and memory 1.3 Dementia often share the same symptoms as a person who is suffering from…

If the patient already suffers from a personality disorder, the onset of dementia will serve to enhance or diminish the disorder. Patients in Cluster A have solitary/paranoid personality disorder. These patients tend to have an overwhelming tendency to be improperly suspicious of others. The personality traits of Cluster A were…

must also take special care in how we recognize our veterans living with dementia. The course of Alzheimer’s and dementia will often take people on an emotional journey down memory lane. Resulting in people reliving past events as though they were current. Everyone is at risk for developing dementia and the effects are unique to each individual. Each of us has followed our own path in life bringing to our experience of dementia all the accomplishments, traumas, jobs, responsibilities and…

Outline for The Main Effects of Alzheimer’s Dementia. A) INTRODUCTION: There are many different types of Dementia but most common are Alzheimer’s. People are unaware of the effects that their loved ones suffer with when diagnosed with this disease. There are 3 stages of Alzheimer’s that eventually take over the human brain of someone with this disease. The three main symptoms for each stage of Alzheimer’s are stage 1: Memory impairment – memory is affected, not being able to remember…

NEUROSARCODOSIS PRESENTING AS RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE DEMENTIA: A CASE REPORT ABSTRACT: We report a case of neurosarcoidosis in a patient presenting with rapidly progressive dementia and intermittent delirium. Sarcoidosis with neurologic involvement is rare, and typically does not manifest with psychiatric or cognitive symptomatology. The most common presentation of neurosarcoidosis is facial neuropathy, followed by meningoencephalitis. This patient exhibited accelerated mental…

This paper explores many pieces of literature which describe the world of dementia. The articles go into length on the severity of the specific types of dementia, provide well built explanations of the types of dementia, symptoms, and provide various symptoms and common treatments. This paper will include a case study which dives into a patient's history, state their symptoms, and conclude with a final diagnosis. As there are many ways to treat a patient, research on medications and therapies…

Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life (Alzheimer 's Association®, 2016). According to a study done at Erasmus University Medical School, the likelihood of dementia increases exponentially with age nearly one third of the population aged 85 and over has dementia (Ott et al., 1995). The most commonly heard of form of dementia is Alzheimer 's disease. And although this makes sense, considering it is the most common form, affecting…

While it is common for anyone to suffer memory loss as we age, dementia is a condition which is worse than normal memory loss and are usually symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease for older people. The primary difference between age-related memory loss and dementia is that the former isn’t disabling. The memory lapses does not affect us greatly on our daily routine, the effect is so minimal that it does cause for any concern. Dementia, on another note is shown by repeating or persistent memory loss…

Summary/Review Dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (DAT) is a common form of dementia that affects individual’s memories. They can be long term or short term and can consist of loss of recent conversation, events and names. The article “Emotional Recognition from Face, Voice, and Music in Dementia of the Alzheimer Type” focused on the “emotional recognition from both face and voice” (Drapeau, Gosselin, Gagon, Peretz, & Lorrain, 2009). According to Drapeau et al., during the onset stages of…