Wandering

the unit. However, the door are lock so people aren’t able to leave as people on his level have a severe case of dementia as if they were to get out. Greg would say that he is getting better and he needs to leave now. In addition, he would mention that he needs to get back to work that is why he needs to leave. Greg would sometime try to break the down by ponding on it and trying to break the door handle in order to get out. He would become angry when the door would not open. On the other hand, another gentlemen similar to Greg, I’ll name him Jimmy, Jimmy would always say he needs to leave the area so he can go get his keys from his car that is park right outside. In fact, delusion is symptoms that people with memory deficits have. Wandering is another symptom to memory deficits. As people with dementia are lost and confused they tend to wander around the unit to figure out where they are. However, this occurs at night as well as some resident wander into other resident’s rooms. For instance, those who are new resident that are new to the unit sometime wander around. Confusion is another symptom to memory deficits as they don’t have the mental state of mind to know as much especially their current state. The reason why confusion occurs is due to the loss of their short term memory. For instance, I have notice and confirm this symptom with my supervisor of how some resident loses their short term memory. I notice that when I go in after the residents have lunch; I would ask…

in the elderly with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, and usually occurs in the late evenings and at night. The causes and range of symptoms of Sundown Syndrome are still being debated, but several symptoms, behaviors, risk factors, treatments, and methods of prevention have been identified. People should become more aware of the symptoms of sundowning so that they can recognize such behaviors in their own relatives. Symptoms and Behaviors Sundowning is a syndrome that patients with a…

Similar to any other disease, Alzheimer’s has aspects that are unique to the individual. While there are common symptoms that everyone will experience there are certain ones that are unique to certain individuals. There are many aspects in a dementia patient’s life that is affected. They are affected psychologically, emotionally, culturally, spiritually, and socially. While working with the family of a person who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and the individual you need to be aware of what…

A possible limitation of this review were the studies which addressed potential functions of mind wandering which did not provide substantial causal evidence to support their concepts.This review aimed to structure the literature presented on mind wandering over the last 30 years by framing it in a new context that would influence its integration into main stream models of executive attention. The strength of this review was in how it provided an extensive framework for describing the existing…

Demographic Information For this assignment I watched Still Alice (Glatzer, 2015). This movies main character is Alice who is a linguistic professor at Columbia University. At the begging of the move she is celebrating her 50th birthday. She is married to John and has three adult children Anna, Tom, and Lydia. After having some issues with her memory Alice decides to see a neurologist who tests her cognitive abilities and does scans of her brain. After the test are performed Alice is diagnosed…

All mythology holds some similarities like immortality, power, and the respect of the gods and of course they also have the their differences. Differences include ways of magic, reasons for conflicts, as well as the sacrifices they make. "Dagda the good" and "The wanderings of Dionysus." Both myths show the confidence of those who are immortal, a use of magic and how they will always get their vengeance in the end. In "Dagda the good" and “The wandering of Dionysus” are very alike. First, both…

Mind wandering occurs with every individual, but some more than others. Mind wandering can hinder what information is comprehended. The Pachai et al., (2016) article “The mind that wanders: Challenges and potential benefits of mind wandering in education,” discusses mind wandering occurring in the classroom. Mind wandering is defined as shifting one’s attention from one task to internal, personally relevant thoughts (Pachai et al., 2016). Students cannot be expected to give their full attention…

Paper was “mind-wandering” and whether it had an effect on film comprehension. Mind wandering is defined as an attentional shift away from a primary task or ongoing event in the external environment towards internally task-unrelated thoughts or feelings; it is basically a daydream. Researchers have studied this topic for years and concluded that mind wandering occurs when there is little attention required in our daily tasks. I mentioned in my paper that sitting in a one hour and fifteen…

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as J.R.R. Tolkien once said “Not all those that wander are lost.” (The Riddle of Strider). Some people may understand wandering as a loss of direction, or meaning; whereas others see that those who wander may have a purpose. While in the act of wandering, people can learn many lessons including how to forgive the ones they have wronged, how important family and friends are, that riches and wealth aren’t the most important aspects of life, and to never…

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Matt Richtel published a book in 2015 about the dangers of distraction, especially while driving. Titled A Deadly Wandering, the book covers Reggie Shaw, perpetrator of one of the first car accidents attributed to texting while driving, and some of the neurological research attached to how distraction works and why our mobile devices are so attention-consuming. One of the many topics brought up, and a significant contributor to Reggie’s accident, is inattentional…