really know any details about. Team E’s power point presentation was on Alzheimer’s disease. This disease was discovered in 1906 by Dr. Alois Alzheimer. He was the person who first saw the disease, and was able to notice the cognitive and behavioral degeneration in patients (Bremer, Ross, Shaw, Towery, 2012). This is a disease that is very damaging not only to the person suffering, but to their love ones around them. Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder that progressively damages and destroys brain
Informative Speech Com-150.04 (rough outline #2) I. Introduction: A. Attention Getter- Your memory is a monster; you forget- it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you! (John Irving) B. Purpose – After hearing my speech the audience will be able to define and explain memory loss or dementia in adults. Why
The facts and figures of Alzheimer’s are clearly delineated in an educational video presented by Alzheimer’s Association. The public service announcement states: that 5 million Americans have been diagnosed with the disease, by 2050 the prevalence of this disease could triple, that there are more then 15 million caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s and dementia and that those care givers provided over 17 billion hours of unpaid care (alz.org, 2014) These facts give momentum to the importance
Jorel Barnett Speech 100 003 Informative Speech Outline Specific Purpose: “To inform my audience about how to eat healthy.” Central Idea: In this speech, I’ll be explaining why it is important to eat healthy, and give tips on what to do to initiate healthier eating habits. Introduction: Attention Getter: How many of you want to be healthy? Credibility Material: My mom is a dietitian; which is a person who specializes in the study of food and nutrition in relation to health, and
(THIS WAS AN INFORMATIVE SPEECH I DID FOR MY COM220 CLASS ON THE STAGES OF SPINAL CORD INJURY RESEARCH. IT ACTED AS AN INTRODUCTION TO MY PERSUASIVE SPEECH ON THE BENEFITS OF STEM CELL RESEARCH) There are about a quarter of a million people in the United States living with spinal cord injuries. In addition, between 7,600 and 10,000 new injuries occur each year. Nearly half of these new injuries will occur in young people between the ages of 16 and 30. As a person in this category, I have become
Quyen Brendon Duc Nguyen Professor Nina Kotelyan Coms 151 1 March 2016 Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about tea Informative Speech Outline Introduction Attention getter: Ever heard of healthy water? Geez it already sounds disgusting, but actually it’s quite tasteful. This healthy water that I speak of, is tea. Drinking tea is one of the simplest things that can benefit your health. Thesis: Growing up, I have seen my grandparents and all the other adults in my family drink tea. So I have
objects. The nativist (or rationalist) approach, on the other hand, asserts that it is innate factors that determine language acquisition. Noam Chomsky, often described as “the father of modern linguistics”, falls into this camp as he believes that speech is the result of hidden rules of language that are hidden somewhere in the brain (Rahmani and Abdolmanafi 2111). Steven Pinker, a colleague of Chomsky, is a renowned psychologist, cognitive scientist and linguist who discusses his own theories on
and the healthcare system, leaving behind many unanswered questions and confusion for all. Based on research and information reported by experts in many fields, this paper will explore the different aspects surrounding dementia, specifically Alzheimer’s Disease, with the goal of helping the average person to better understand this debilitating disorder, become more familiar with how it affects everyone, and lastly, make available to the reader techniques and strategies that could benefit the afflicted
environment. For example on dementia, where the Prime Minister has taken an international lead, devoting a G8 summit to encouraging drug companies to do more to find a cure, setting a diagnosis ambition of two thirds for the NHS and supporting the Alzheimer’s Society in signing up over half a million dementia friends with a target of getting a million dementia friends by next spring (www.gov.uk, October 2014).” In addition, there is also research which has shown that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
symptoms include difficulties with concentration, memory, language and the ability to carry out straightforward actions. Many people suffer from hallucinations, sluggishness of movement, rigidity and tremors. Dementia with Lewy bodies is similar to Alzheimer’s. Inherited Parkinson’s is rare and there is no evidence that is can be passed on in families, however it is estimated that 5% of people with Parkinson’s may have a genetic cause. Juvenile is a term used for persons diagnosed under the age of twenty