Dementia Case Study

Literature Review: The Effectiveness of the use of Sensory Therapy for Elderly Adults Diagnosed with Dementia.

Dementia is a term used to describe symptoms associated with decline in memory or other

The worker met with Mrs. Marilyn Beaird on 8/18/15. She is bed and wheelchair bound and requires two assists when transported. Mrs. Beaird has diagnoses of Vascular Dementia and is unable to answer questions

The reporting party (RP) stated she received a call from resident John Tedford who resides in the assisted living portion of the facility. The RP stated the resident does not have dementia and maintains his cognitive abilities. The RP stated the resident disclosed that money was stolen from his checking account. The RP stated the bank was contacted regarding the account and disclosed that the account was closed on 7/17/15. The bank informed the RP there were two checks issued that were not cashed. According to the RP the resident's checking account contained $10,500 and the savings account contained $169,000 at the time the accounts were closed. The RP stated the bank reissued the checks to the resident and mailed them to his wife's resident.

On August 27, 2016 worker received a letter from Dr. Andrew Duxbury, MD, Mr. Walker’s doctor at the VA Medical Center. The letter stated Mr. Walker has both physical and mental limitations that render him dependent on a third party for care. He is unable to understand normal decisions for daily living and patient’s need for 24-hour care and supervision was discussed with family on June 9, 2016 during home visit.

Advanced dementia can be seen as a deadly illness in itself or as a symptom involved in the human ageing process. A study proposed that a more beneficial way to approach the treatment for advanced dementia was to treat it as a terminal illness. People who have had advanced dementia experienced symptoms similar to those who were dying of terminal conditions, like cancer. Common symptoms include pain, agitation, and shortness of breath. It is said that three common immediate causes of death are from a fever, eating problems, or from pneumonia. A researcher from the Indiana University center for Aging Research, Greg Sachs, notes that the hospitalized patients with advanced dementia have

“The concept of dementia has been around since early civilizations. Ancient philosophers viewed mental decay as a normal part of ageing. The prevalence and study of dementia increased as the lifespan of humans extended. In the late 1800s, with advancements in medicine and the ability to look inside the brain, the medical community realized that diseases could cause this deterioration. The most common dementia was named, in 1910, after Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist.

Over three million people every year are diagnosed with a group of conditions, called dementia. Dementia is not a disease itself, but instead is a term that is used to describe a range of symptoms. Actual diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and strokes, can cause dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause for dementia; it accounts for sixty to eighty percent of all dementia cases. Incorrectly, dementia is sometimes called “senility.” This is incorrect because the term “senility” portrays dementia and its symptoms as normal signs of aging, which is not the case.

People with dementia don’t know what they want or can’t communicate what they want Dementia is a natural part of aging Once you have dementia there is nothing you can do Only the elderly get dementia People with dementia can’t understand what’s going on I should correct what a dementia sufferer says when they are wrong There is nothing I can do to lower my risk of dementia

Nicole, I too am fascinated with how the brain differs in patients with Dementias. I am also curious about comparing the brains of those people who have suffered many concussions, those with dementias/AD and those healthy brains. If I had the opportunity I would like to observe a medical examination of brains from decceased with all 3 differences. I do not mean to be morbid, but I feel that would be very interesting. Research sometimes comes in very uncomfortable situations and forms .

The patient is a 72-year-old black female who presented to the ED with complaints of low blood sugar. Her son found the patient at home in bed unresponsive. The son states he checked the patient's blood sugar it was 47. The patient is on NovoLog 3 times a day and Lantus one time a day. The patient had similar symptoms in the past. The patient has a medical history of dementia. She also is known to be hypertensive, insulin-dependent diabetes and has no surgical history. It is to be noted on presentation her BP was 128/95 with a pulse of 52, respirations of 15, hypothermic with a temp of 93 and oxygenating 94% on room air. She also showed significant bradycardia. EKG at 48 beats per minute, T waves were inverted in leads 4, 5 and 6 but

Dementia is defined as a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. However, what most of us do not know is that dementia is a general disorder that has a few subcategories. Those categories include Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia and frontal-temporal dementia, to name a few. Although statistically dementia is experienced at a similar rate amongst Japanese-Americans and caucasian Americans, their rates in the subtypes are different. Japanese-American’s, most typically Japanese-American men, experience a higher rate in vascular dementia. Vascular dementia is attributed by a lack of blood supply to the brain. Although Japanese-Americans experience vascular dementia at a higher rate than others, the reasoning behind that is still unexplained.

Dementia is the decrease of intellectual capacity and other emotional aptitudes, prompting a debilitating in the capacity to perform everyday activities. Dementia happens because of damage or disease in the mind past what may be normal from typical aging. This prompts a decrease in "“speaking coherently or understanding language, recognizing or identifying objects, carrying out and comprehending tasks, recalling events in recent events, paying attention, orientation to time, place, and person, understanding symbolic language, thinking abstractly and performing executive functions, and showing good judgment” (Aging Matters p.120). Dementia envelops numerous ailments, for example, Alzheimer's disease, Vascular dementia, and Frontotemporal dementia.

This is a new admission transferred from Florida got here last night with a history of vascular dementia with the addition of head trauma in 05/2016. The patient has minimal communication skills and all of this is related by her daughter, Linda Abrams. Linda tells me that her mother was born in Brooklyn, graduated from high school, worked both at Macy's and a ladies dress factory that her father owned. Around the age of 22, she married had three children. Linda Abrams lives in the Briar Creek area of Durham. Arlene Lambert the second daughter lives in Reno, Nevada. The third daughter is deceased. Apparently, Beulah's husband and she lived in Brooklyn, but in 1954 moved to Edison, New Jersey where he worked in the vending machine

The patient is a 56-year-old gentleman who is brought to the emergency room by his family because of increasing combative behavior, agitation and inability on their part to care for him is refusing refusing to eat and threatening to leave the home. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease several years ago at Columbia University hospital by Dr. Britton at that time had such severe behavioral disturbances that he had to be have inpatient hospitalization to stabilize his behavior. At one point he was on Seroquel which has been tapered down and the wife evidently stopped it. He had recently been seen by psychiatrist in Clifton who has him on Risperidol and Xanax but they have not controlled his behavior. According to our psychiatrists who