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    Dementia Case Study Essay

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    Exclusion Criteria 1. Care Giver of patients having score less than 24 on MMSE (Mini Mental State Examination) scale. 2. Participants suffering from mental retardation or any other cognitive dysfunction. 3. Care Giver living in family having more than one patient with dementia and other major medical or psychiatric illness will be excluded. Permissions and Clearance Clearance for the project was obtained from the Institutional Ethical Committee. Informed consent was obtained from all the…

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    order to determine one's overall well-being. Mental status cannot be evaluated by simply listening to one's heart or lung sounds; it requires a more in-depth observation and interpretation of one's behavior. This includes the study of consciousness, language, mood and affect, orientation, attention, memory, abstract reasoning, and thought process (Jarvis, 2016). It is important to analyze mental status in a health assessment because an individual's mental state affects how that person cares for…

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    physical examination and laboratory and neuropsychiatric testing. Using clinical criteria, clinicians can accurately diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in 75% to 97%” (Griffith, 2002). Some of the clinical criteria requires, assessing neuropsychological assessments to test and monitor long and short term memories and cognition. Neuropsychological testing involves a specialized testing that targets and measures a specific brain function and or pathways. Some of the tools uses for this include…

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    Spaced Retrieval Training

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    the information in a person’s memory. These types of trainings often take place two or more times per week which can be costly and inconvenient for the patient. Dementia is not one specific disease. It is a general term for loss of memory and other mental abilities severe enough to…

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    Ghada and her mother for Ghada to be able to put on makeup independently, and since her condition of mental retardation she appear to be having some problem-solving, thinking and sequencing, memory issues as well as some mild motor (strength) issues. the LOTCA gathers information on those basic cognitive skills by observing the person doing selected task and it can be used with individuals with mental illness, it appeared to be a good assessment to choose and use. The information derived from…

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    Introduction Screening tools are an important part of the physical therapy toolbox. It is the first step needed, to identify patients that are at risk for a particular medical condition. For the screening examination to be valid, it has to follows important guidelines to ensure its precision. Screening inquisitions can be arranged in a variety of frameworks, for instance, an individual answer a series of standardizing questions or a dynamic pattern; a person is engaged in selected…

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    MMSE Assessment Report

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    Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE): I would want to be familiar with the MMSE because its quick and easy assessment tool used to indicate impairment in orientation, registration, attention and calculation, recall, as well as language and praxis. As individuals age, their cognitive abilities tend to decline. Therefore, I would use this assessment to determine if client has any impairments in their cognition that would limit their performance in occupations. This assessment would help guide my…

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    The Polonaise is a piece riddled with treacherous passages that either make the pianist leap across the keyboard or tie his fingers into mini Gordian’s knots. I found myself wishing I wouldn’t mess up as badly as I did in previous recitals . . . I could have played better. Yes, I had stage fright. Unfortunately, I seemingly could not shake off this mental affliction, as the Chopin recital showed. I had previously tried to combat stage fright with brute force:…

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    Mmm Case Study Nursing

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    practitioner assesses a client’s mental status from the client’s family’s concerns of possible mental decline, the practitioner should assess the patient’s hearing status. According to Jorgensen, Palmer, Pratt, Erickson, and Moncrieff (2016), “Confusion-life behaviors often concern family members and other caregivers; they may presume that the person has dementia and bias the diagnostic process toward dementia rather than hearing loss” (p. 312). A large portion of the Mini-Mental State Exam…

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    arms and hands. Past medical history is unremarkable. His father died at the age of 28 years in a road traffic accident. His grandmother had similar symptoms after her retirement. He does not smoke, drinks alcohol, or uses illicit drugs. Physical examination reveals a restless ill-groomed man. He is having…

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