Dementia

71). Dementia is the decline in cognitive function (Smith, 2016). Dementia outlines the loss of physical agility and cognitive abilities, such as, orientation, memory, intellect, judgment and affect (Pinson, Register, & Roberts-Lewis, 2010). MCI is the decline of performance in a certain area…

depression and dementia, could help give the patient the care they need. A brief interview for mental status (BIMS) is the mandated cognitive tool. It provides an efficient measurement that provides strong reliability and convergent validity, can be rapidly administered, and is suited for paraprofessional use (Mansbach, Mace, & Clark, 2014). The short comings associated with the BIMS tools are it is not designed to be sensitive towards the full cognitive continuum and does not stage dementia…

2013). Without this sensory and perceptive information, it would make such simple tasks and behaviors impossible. For example, when we eat a bowl of soup, the parietal lobe is responsible for helpings bring the spoon from the bowl up to the mouth (Dementia and the Brain, 2014). The temporal lobe is the area of the brain located near the temples. It contains the hippocampus, which is the area of the brain that maintains memory and is most often associated with the retention of both short and long…

Some individuals may experience severe deterioration of cognitive skills, which can lead to dementia. This can make it impossible to cope with on a day to day basis. It has been said that once the aging results are in an inevitable loss of cognitive abilities, that nothing can be done to halt the decline. Research, however does not support this…

old or 32.8% (CITATION). Of the elders 80% were Caucasian, 14.4%, were African American, other races were 5.6%. An apparent issue observed was that more than half of the individuals reported had a physical disability or cognitive impairment due to dementia-like symptoms. The study also concluded that the large majority of elderly abusers are in fact acted upon by members of the individual’s own family, 72.6%, and the remaining abuse, 22.6%, being demonstrated in mental health and patient care…

syndrome—gross self-neglect, domestic squalor and hoarding trash--overlaps into symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), dementia, or psychosis, suggesting that hoarding is a common symptom in moderate to severe dementia patients (Steketee et al., 2001). There are many illnesses that are problematic and have the same symptoms of late life hoarders. Alzheimer’s or dementia are referred to most often because they are well known disorders, and you also have the lessor talked about…

son lives about twenty-miles away from Shady Brooks Nursing facility, where the patient for 18 months resides. David has begun to show signs of emotional distress and adjustment disorder seeing his mother’s health declining, due to aging and mild dementia. Mrs. Green, eventually showed signs being frustrated,…

with clients. At this office visit, I had a pleasure of meeting with the CEO, a staff member, and a caregiver of a client suffering from dementia. The office is not spacious but the space is appropriate for conversations and engagement. The office although small allows caregivers a place to come in and express their concerns in private. Often the person with dementia does not come to the office visit and if they do they are monitored while the caregiver speaks with a staff member in private.…

effected by dementia continues to be a heightened concern for many working families. Generally, it is family, frequently women family members, who will either search for needed help intended for their loved one or will ultimately become the caretaker. Fortunately, the Duke Center for the Study of Aging has an elder care consultation service department on campus. This department helps employees in finding the care and support for their loved ones who have Alzheimer’s or associated dementias…

that inevitably results in dementia [45,…