Dementia

Anxiety is not only the response of any disease but it is one of the major enhancing factor, especially in mentally ill patients. Anxiety is characterized by the feeling of worriedness, tension, emotional and psychological changes. Similarly dementia is the disease where presence of anxiety is at very peak in elderly patients. According to Gail W.Stuart (2005), anxiety is a response which an individual can hold number of feelings which include hopelessness, insecurity and isolation. Anxiety is…

Caregivers have a stressful job and studies have found more stress in dementia caregivers. Some symptoms felt by caregivers are emotional exhaustion, anxiety, and depression. This may increase risk of heart disease and quality of life. Good sources are used in the article because in India dementia is growing public health concerns and…

symptoms of dementia, as opposed to those with a more progressed form of the disease (p. 1036). In addition, group music therapy tended to be more effective than individualized music therapy, perhaps due to a sense of comradery felt between participants (Yu-Shiun et al., 2015, p. 3434). However, the therapy may be more beneficial if the music itself is individualized…

adults over the age of sixty, although it is not considered a normal part of the aging process (Dementia Alliance International, n.d.). AD is considered the most common of the dementia diseases, a medical term that best describes a cluster of disorders involving the deterioration of the brain, (Miller, 2012, p. 252). It accounts for 60-70% of the one hundred different diseases that encompass the dementia umbrella (Australian Institute of Health…

Many people categorize Alzheimer’s disease as a normal part of the aging process in which most elderly people will probably have. However, this is not the case. Alzheimer’s disease is not a normal part of the aging process. Instead, it is a disease that is associated with brain function. Furthermore, Alzheimer’s is not a sudden onset disease; it develops gradually over time and can slowly progress. People affected with Alzheimer’s begin to develop a variety of signs and symptoms throughout the…

alarming increase in cases involving professional athletes and head trauma has been made. The ScienceDaily article “Evidence of brain damage found in former soccer players,” is a study that examined fourteen retired soccer players with signs of dementia. The former athletes played soccer for an average of twenty years. The relatives of six out of the fourteen players gave researchers permission to conduct an autopsy of the player’s brain. Researchers identified CTE in four out…

it has been suggested that the loss of estrogen predisposes women to reduced kidney function [2]. As a consequence, there is an increased risk of incident mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, which has been demonstrated by several studies [3-5]. The risk of incident cognitive impairment and dementia are augmented by comorbidities, such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity [6-8]. There have been studies that have examined how hormone therapy (HT) effects kidney function, but the…

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the most common form of dementia, a severe brain disorder that causes major memory loss and other serious cognitive changes. With Alzheimer's, nerve cells in the brain being to die which makes it difficult to do simple tasks others take for granted, like how remember, learn, or create. Alzheimer's leads to nerve cell death and tissue loss throughout the whole brain and over time the brain shrinks, affecting pretty much all of its functions. It is a irreversible form of dementia that starts mild…

One current psychological phenomenon in my life is schizophrenia. My cousin has recently displayed the beginning stages of schizophrenia, although he has not yet been clinically diagnosed with the disorder. Schizophrenia has many commons symptoms including ones such as hallucinations, hearing voices, and confused thinking. The disorder is mainly believed to cause changes in the way people think, as well as emotional and behavioral changes. Although my cousin’s sense of reasoning logically is…