Effectiveness Of A Patient With Alzheimer

Patient living in the nursing homes with diagnosis of dementia experience Disruptive behavior. According to Burton et al. (2015) more than 44 million people have dementia. Dementia affects memory, thinking and social abilities. These symptoms severely interfere with daily functioning of the patient. Approximately 90% of dementia patients demonstrate psychological and behavioral symptoms such as anxiety, agitation, depression, hallucination, delusion, and aggression (Chen et al., 2014). Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are a varied group of non-cognitive symptoms affecting demented patients. These symptoms are delusion, hallucination, agitation, anxiety, euphoria, disinhibition, night-time behavioral disturbances

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

Background: Dementia is one of the fatal brain disease which shatters the person’s ability in his daily functioning. The prevalence of dementia in Kerala in people aged ≥ 55 is 3.77% and 4.86% in ≥ 65 years. Kerala has highest number of old age home in India and significant number of elderly residing in the old age home which also includes substantial number of persons with dementia. They require some special attention or they might be marginalized among the elderly. Thus this is a serious endeavor to investigate those management strategies on elderly with dementia in residential institution for aged.

Throughout history there have been reports of decreased memory and mental deterioration that accompanied old age. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer who described the symptoms in a woman in Germany in the 1907 but it was not until the 1970’s that AD was considered to be a major disorder and AD continues to be a major health concern worldwide (Reger, 2002).

Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disease with many different stages that slows one’s lifestyle and has no real cure. Alzheimer’s disease is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer. The disease first appears around the age of sixty. Studies have concluded that as many as 5.1 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease. A person with Alzheimer’s loses connections between neurons in the brain (1).

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

Dementia is caused by loss of brain cells, and shrinkage of brain tissue. This damage leads to increased challenges the brain cells now have to overcome. Neural pathways are the ways our brain cells communicates with one another, so dementia interrupts and negatively affects this process.

Have you forgotten someone’s name? Forgotten where you put something? This is ok its part of aging. When forgetfulness starts to interfere with your daily routine-such as getting into your car and forget where you are going. You aren’t able to perform your job or handle your money. This could be dementia.

I visited a patient with a dementia this week that normally responds well to music. Therefore, I utilized music therapy to engage the patient. My field instructor told me the genera of music that he enjoyed, so deciding on that was easy. I played several well known Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder songs. The intervention was successfully for about 15 minutes, in which he was tapping his foot and singing along. After 15 minutes, the patient began to lose focus and fell asleep. I would still say that the intervention was a success; it may have helped him fall asleep or have a pleasant dream.

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 Is there something worse than you forget your family member names and your memories ?.Dementia disorder is death before death as joey comeau said.There are more than 46 million people around the world suffer from dementia.That number is expected to double in the next 20 years as more people live into their 80s and 90s.Although dementia is more common with elderly people , dementia is not a natural part of the aging process. Dementia is a serious disorder caused by a variety of brain illnesses which affects a person’s memory. Dementia
characterized by different types,symptoms and it can be controlled by using some treatment.[3]



 First of all, dementia is an umbrella term describe large numbers of brain disorders such as azheimer’s disease, vascular dementia and vascular dementia. Azheimer’s disease is the most common disorder type of dementia.brain the cell damaged by abnormal protein which leads to a gradual loss of cognitive functioning. The second most common cause of dementia is vascular dementia. It caused by blockage or narrowing of blood vessel which reduce the oxygen of the brain.It results cells become damage or die.The third type of dementia is lewy body dementia.A patient with lewy body develop tiny abnormal structures (Lewy bodies)

Having all these unique alternative therapies is so important within the dementia community. No one person living with dementia will have the same symptoms as they will not have the same interests in therapies. Individuality is crucial to each person's success in therapy. Some patients may prefer physical hands on therapy such as massage or dancing. Others may prefer animal therapy or music which requires less physicalness. Like myself, some may be very sensitive to certain aromas so I would not prefer that type of therapy. What will work for some won't as much for others. So that is the beauty of having so many unique alternative therapy options. The key is to understand each individual and fit the right therapy with their personality, interests,

Dementia is group of neuropathological disorders, and it is progressive and incurable disease. It is also most common in elderly people. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning—thinking, remembering, and reasoning—and behavioral abilities to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities. These functions include memory, language skills, visual perception, problem solving, self-management, and the ability to focus and pay attention. Some people with dementia cannot control their emotions, and their personalities may change. Dementia ranges in severity from the mildest stage, when it is just beginning to affect a person’s functioning, to the most severe stage, when the person must depend completely on others for basic activities of living. The most common types of dementia are Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia .

What is a good person? Quora’s definition of A good person is: Not a selfish person, but someone who thinks about the needs and comfort of another person as much as they think about their own. Someone who stands by you in difficult times. I agree with all of that. From my own experience, I’d add, someone who remembers what IS important to you and what WAS important to you, touches base with you regularly, accepts you for who you are and respects your human dignity. I am going to talk about my experiences with Alzheimer’s Disease and how it made me a better person. And how profoundly this deadly disease impacted my life.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHCA, (2015) defines a stakeholder “as persons or groups that have a vested interest in a clinical decision and the evidence that supports that decision” (para 3). Stakeholders can be many different people, from patients and their caregivers to clinicians, researchers, policymakers just to mention a few. (AHCA, 2015). Many stakeholders in a hospital setting have a hand in the health care policy making. In this paper the author will interview one of the Directors of Baptist Health South Florida.

Kayla and I focused on the recovery-oriented approach to progressive neurocognitive disorders, specifically Alzheimer’s disease. Before beginning this presentation I knew a decent amount about Alzheimer’s disease since my grandmother past away from it and because I’ve also learned about it in a dementia course I took in second year. However, I had never heard of the recovery-oriented approach or any interventions in general for Alzheimer’s disease. This was interesting to learn about because when I first thought of the recovery model I assumed it meant cure, which would not be appropriate for someone with Alzheimer’s disease. I have learned that the recovery approach is more about the process or journey rather then the destination or cure.