Dementia Case Study: Dementia

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

Writing a research paper is very difficult. Picking a topic is even harder. The topic I have chose to write about is dementia. Dementia is a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes cause by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, or personalities. This is a very personal topic for me. Researching this topic made me understand something that happen to me recently. My great-grandmother passed away May 21st, 2011. After ninety four years of a wonderful life she passed away. She was diagnosed with dementia two months before she died. You would never even think that she would have dementia. She never showed any signs of dementia besides the final days of her life. I feel like doing research on this topic

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

Dementia is a syndrome, which is usually of a chronic or progressive nature, which causes deterioration in cognitive function. It goes beyond what is expected from normal aging. It causes changes in what you remember, like appointments, or phone numbers. It may cause you to get lost in a familiar setting like driving to the grocery store. You may not be able to balance your checkbook or add up your points in a card game. Communication becomes difficult; as you cannot find the words you want to say. Your personality may change, you may become paranoid, be crabby or short tempered, and you may say or do inappropriate things or laugh when nothing is funny. Dementia is one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older people

Dementia originated from the Latin language meaning ‘mind gone’. The course of the disease declines to the last stage and the person will forget majority of his or her memory. The patient will go about his or her normal ways during the first stage of dementia; eyes and mind are clear. During the beginning of the last stage, the patient will depend on the caretaker for his or her needs and will not recall the things he or she has learned. In the last phase of the last stage, the patient will be “born again”, meaning he or she will derive from the end of his life to the beginning. Similar to the Alzheimer’s disease, the nerve cells in the brain become short. The brain will not function properly because of the shrinkage of the nerve cells, but

The reporting party (RP) stated that former administrator/owner Edwin Ingan is driving resident#1 car. The resident's former neighbor inquired about purchasing the vehicle and resident #1 refused. A while later Edwin cajoled resident #1 into signing Department of Motor Vehicle paperwork. The resident has mild cognitive impairment and memory loss. Edwin has been having resident #1 to sign checks to pay the facility fee. According to the RP each month Edwin would come into the facility and bring a check for resident #1 to sign. Approximately 1 year ago Edwin asked the caregiver to check resident #1 belongings for additional checks for the resident checking account. Fortunately no additional checks were located. The former administrator directed

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.

I had done some searching for a topic and found one on CNN news. I chose the topic: Dementia. The definition of dementia is; 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. It is not a specific disease because it varies a wide range of symptoms that deals with daily thinking or ability to do things with daily living. Alzheimer's is a part of dementia and accounts for 60 - 80 percent of cases. Vascular dementia is the second leading cause of dementia which occurs after a stroke. There are many other conditions of dementia which can be reversible, such as thyroid problems and vitamin deficiencies. People with dementia have a

It is already established that late-life depression is associated with increased risk of dementia, but the temporal relationship between depression and development of

A review of his medical records indicates that he suffers from advanced dementia; he is now wheelchair dependent and needs assistance with all his ADLS. The facility nurse reports that he recently was treated with for pneumonia with antibiotic therapy. He has chronic left knee pain and left hip pain that is managed with tramadol. He suffers from co-morbidity of neuropathy-stable with medication, atrial fibrillation-stable, HTN-stable, depression-stable with medication.

HCV with neurocognitive effects similar to those of HIV, but without the associated end-stage dementia (Laskus et al., 2005). Prevalence studies have estimated the 1-month rate of depression in HCV-infected individuals at 28% (Golden et al., 2005), but it is clear that treatment of HCV with interferon-based therapies dramatically increases the risk of depressive symptoms to near 80% (Laguno et al., 2004; Reichenberg et al., 2005; Scalori et al., 2005). These effects on mood, increased fatigue, and worsened quality of life are even greater in patients with concurrent, advanced HIV disease (Ryan et al., 2004), and appear likely to be due to a variety of factors, including biological and sociodemographic ones (Braitstein et al., 2005). Multiple

I thought that it was amazing how even the most deeply affected dementia patients could still remember their memories through music therapy. With their nostalgia they are able to recall things that I thought once people were diagnosed with dementia or alzheimer’s they would never get it back. For example. take Henry, the patient with bad Dementia, he could not even differentiate his granddaughter voice from his daughter. It made me feel very sad to find out that this man used to have a great personality, fun loving, and vivacious. I found from watching Henry that “ Music is inseparable from emotion.” This means that it can break through any memory disease and is actually better for the patient making them feel like a human being to be able

(2008) reports the modality of (TT) as being highly beneficial to decrease agitation in dementia patients. The research of Wang and Hermann (2006) supports Coppa’s findings that touch therapies significantly reduce agitation in elderly dementia patients and also decrease the necessity for psychotropic medication in these same patients.

In 2011, a care program (Palliative care for advanced dementia) for older adults with dementia was crafted in Beatitude Campus, a LeadingAge member in Arizona. This program focused predominantly on the needs of dementia patients, putting their needs first and working around their schedules. Later, in 2015, the Alzheimer’ Association-New York Chapter along with 3 other LeadingAge members adopted a comparable program called comfort first. The objective of the Alzheimer’ Association-New York Chapter was to improve the way nursing homes cared for dementia patients. Ann Wyatt was then appointed to take care to the next level by collaborating with nursing homes employing this program. In her attempt to do so, she reached out to the program co-directors

One of the strongest risk factors associated with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is alipoprotein epsilon-4 (ApoE4), particularly in late-onset sporadic and familial AD (Ghebremedhin et al., 1998; Chartier-Harlin et al., 1994; Corder et al., 1993). AD is strongly associated with two types of pathologies, amyloid-β plaque and the phosphorylated tau proteins that can often lead to neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) (Kim et al., 2009). The three alleles of ApoE (E2, E3, and E4) have been found to show dosage-dependent effects that negatively affects the clearance of amyloid-β plaque, with E4 showing the least clearance whereas E2 showing the most (Deane et al., 2008; Holtzman, 2004). Additionally, the increasing amount of E4 alleles