Dignity and Respect

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the nerve cells, resulting in loss of memory, thinking and skills, and behavioral changes (America, 2014). This disease now has a huge impact on my own life, and the lives of those who are closest to me. Around the age of 67, my grandma started forgetting things periodically. I can remember her saying, “Where did I put those keys?” “I just had them.” People did not think much of it; they just figured that she was getting older. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Now, three years later, she is living a much different and confusing life then she had in the past. Her independence is fading and she must have someone with her most, if not all of the time. The once independent woman is so lost yet at the same time she doesn’t really realize it. Luckily, the progression is not happening as fast as they thought it could. She definitely has her days, and some are just better than others for her. She does not remember those who weren’t close to her. She does not even recognize acquaintances. Through out her life, she had good health. Besides the usual cold and flu, my mother said that she doesn’t remember her having any other major health issues. Now, with the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, her health has seemed to decline with the passing years. Yes, she is aging, but it seems to be more than that. The fact that she no longer takes good care of herself has a lot to do with it.

Honor, Courage, and Commitment are three core values that has changed me to become a better citizen. First of all, I follow the Navy core values, Honor Courage, and Commitment, outside of JROTC. Like; Being honorable, and having respect for others, treating everyone the same, no one is different and making hard decisions through my JROTC life. As a cadet, I learn from my mistakes. I see the world differently from others. I've noticed I always push myself to do better and I've been thinking about my life after high school, and who I want to become. JROTC is just a small step. When I first joined JROTC, I didn't expect such a dramatic change. Oh no, I didn't.

As people get old a few of them will experience changes in cognition with age related capacity rather than intellectual capacity. There are some people who get both disparities of mentally and physically impaired that will led into depression due to aging process of their body. Even though, the forgetfulness is a common among older adults, we as healthcare providers must evaluate altered mental status of the patients. “The evaluation and management of altered mental status are broad and require careful history and physical examination to eliminate life-threatening situations”(Patti & Dulebohn, 2017). Therefore, it is very important to recognize the importance of difference between normal age-related symptoms and developing new health problems that can arise in this specific population. As elders get older their memory lapses it frustrating to them leading them to be more worried about changes in their memory. Nurses have a unique capability to promote a cognitive health and determine the possibilities of potential cases of the impairment in elders. The movie “On Golden Pond” Mr. Norman was a perfect example and showed that his symptoms were interfering with his everyday live when he almost burns down the house with fire, calling Bill by his daughter’s name Chelsea and getting lost in on the lake. Even though, Mr. Norman had heart and dementia problems his wife never discouraged him to do what he liked such as

Cindy has limited physical mobility and presents with mild to moderately impaired cognition. She was diagnosed with dementia by her local physician in 2011 following cardiovascular difficulties and a stroke. Currently, she is experiencing a rapid decline in mobility and cognition, and seeing an increase in anxiety. She reports feeling "confused" and "frustrated" more than usual these days. Her daughter reports that she gets depressed more often. Cindy says that she feels "sad" sometimes. Her daughter feels this has to do with all the recent changes, and also says that her mother 's confusion and disorientation has increased.

Many of us have had experience in one way or another with friends or family members developing cognitive difficulty, but for most it didn’t happen all at once with an accident. We are given time to slowly adapt to the new course life has taken. Alan, Cathy, Kelly, friends, and family woke up one day and everything was different from that day

Which I think her not being able to say something to others in what happened to her plays a role as well. 5. She tries to avoid external reminders by avoiding places, people, situations and conversations that tend to arouse distressing memories, thoughts or feelings 6. She completely changes she became more quit, avoids people and lost interest in activities. Her grades have suffered her mutism is interpreted as a rebellious behavior 7.

She knew that she need to go long way to get medicine. She is talking by herself and watching day dream. Welty describes her mental illness “She did not dare to close her eyes, and when a little boy brought her a plate with a slice of marble-cake” (Welty, 217). Her mind tricks with herself, she thought she can see a man with one arm. She also imagine a silent ghost in the cotton filed.

Lydia’s physical being is absolutely gorgeous. She is rather petite, coming to shoulder height on most of the guys she hangs out with. She has strawberry blonde hair that comes down to her mid-back, and hazel green eyes that change color when inside or outside. She has a broad smile and a look to her face that makes you know she isn’t messing around. As for her personality, she’s very diverse. She is extremely intelligent, scarily so at times, and uses it to her advantage every chance she gets. On top of being intelligent, she is an extremely strong person. She goes through tremendous amounts of trauma on an almost daily basis, and still makes

In Still Alice, the main character has memory impairments at the age of fifty. There were a few minor symptoms that were just thought to be because of being overworked and fatigue, but in retrospect point to her disease. For example, forgetting which word to use during a presentation. The recollection was a complete blank. Because of her fairly young age, Alzheimer’s disease was not considered a possibility. Alice believed that it had something to do with her going through menopause, but then she got her menstrual period and decided to go see a neurologist. When Alice did go to the doctor to see what was going on and was diagnosed, it caught

“Dementia is characterized by chronic, global, non-reversible deterioration in memory, executive function, and personality. Speech and motor functions may also be impaired” (Butler and Radhakrishnan, 2011). As defined by Butler and Radharkrishnan, dementia is a disease that affects a person for their whole life. In the next part of this paper, I’m going to talk about the dementia and the effects it has on a person live whether it is with the symptoms, overall experience with it, and what exactly it does to the body. Dementia isn’t a fun disease to have or deal with. According to the World of Health Organization, over 35 million people have dementia (Robitaille, Garcia, & McIntosh, 2015). I’m mainly going to talk about the specific type of dementia Alzheimer’s. “Alzheimer’s disease is defined as a type of dementia characterized by an onset and slow deterioration, and involves impairments in memory, speech, personality, and executive function”(Butler and Radharkrishnan, 2011). Memory loss isn’t just the only thing that happens with dementia. They also experience impairments in language, communication, focus, and reasoning (Ellis, 2013).

What is respect? Is the way people should be treated, how you would want to be treated, and should it come naturally or should it be taught? Respect is what are world is built on, I feel that the phrases like “reap what you sow” explain what respect works like. For example to when I am rude to someone they tend to be rude back, the same works with respect. When being disrespectful to someone you most likely will disrespect you right back. Not everyone follows these thoughts of respect. Actions like these can lead to dangerous places, people begin to break boundaries that were once built on respect.

In a personal excerpt of one man’s life, Losing My Mind tells the fascinating, yet heartbreaking, story of Thomas DeBaggio and his journey with Alzheimer's. Thomas DeBaggio is able to walk the reader through the progression of this disease using his experiences, relationship, and memories. A once simple and content 57 year old herb farmer undergoes a drastic change in lifestyle. The story starts with his diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s, and continues throughout the years he spent living with the disease. DeBaggio not only includes personal stories and events from his life, but passages from psychological documents, papers, and evaluations that go along with the message he is delivering.

Credibility has become the foundation or the building blocks for trust. Our character has become based on credibility and competence, in a relationship, we can send mix signals or wrong signals. When working in public, others tend to make judgments about what has become written, and what has become said by us. Credibility is your total reputation for becoming trustworthy to perform duties with excellence, to care about those that you work with and for; to live by high ethical standards. Additionally to corporate with others and having personal values; and doing what you will say that you will do, rather than not doing what you say then upsetting people.

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Dignity and respect is something everyone has a right to. I have chosen this subject because it is an important part of nursing in that to be able to fulfil the role of a nurse is firstly to respect the person you are caring for. Dignity is a feeling of being valued, respected, having self-worth, supported and being able to show empathy and compassion for the people nurses look after. So for me it’s important to outline the principles in dignity and respect when looking after people who are vulnerable.