Why Is Dementia Important In Health And Social Care

The treatment is offering best‑practice on the care of people with dementia. There is a broad general agreement that the rules of person‑centred care underpin good practice in the sphere of dementia care. The principles provide the human value of people with dementia, regardless of age or cognitive impairment, and those who care for them the individuality of people with dementia, with

Are all laws put into place to help protect an individual from abuse whilst ensuring they can still for fill their right and maintain a sense of individuality. If the person is in care the organisation will have policy’s and procedures in place to risk asses and ensure the protection of the carers, organisation and the individual from danger, harm and abuse.

Instead of treating all people with dementia the same – it makes the care you give

Dementia does not only impact the people with symptoms and it also disturbs the people who must care for the person. It is estimated that 1.2 million people are involved in the care of people with dementia. It has a financial burden on the Australian economy $4.9 billion in 2009-10. (1)

2.1 Explain the key legislation that relates to fulfilment of rights and choices and the minimising of risk of harm and the impact on an individual with dementia.

Dementia refers to a syndrome which results in deterioration in thinking, memory, behavior, and ability to execute everyday activities and duties. Despite the fact that the syndrome is mainly associated with the older people, it is not a normal aspect or part of ageing. One of the major causes of dementia is the aspect of Alzheimer's disease. This disease contributes to about 60 to 70 percent of the cases of dementia. Dementia possesses psychological, physical, economic, and social impacts in relation to the family, caregivers, and the entire society. Dementia affects each individual in a diverse or different way with reference to the impact of the disease and personality following the development of the syndrome (Gao et al, 2013 p. 447).

This essay will aim to introduce the term dementia including the types, causes, prevalence, young onset and models of care. This essay will continue to address what skill could be implemented to provide person centred care with understanding of health promotion and recovery concepts.

When working with a service user you adopt an holistic approach to their care. This involves caring for the person as a whole and also involves you coming into contact with various other people involved in the person’s life. This can include other carers, doctors, social workers, their friends and family and it is very important to work together, as a team in partnership which has basic ground rules including agreements on: purpose/objectives, communication, roles and responsibilities, decision making, resolving conflicts and sharing information to enable you to reach a common goal and provide the best care and

Socially taking care of a grandchild for a year would be difficult. I wouldn’t fit in with the local mommy and me class, and if I still lived In Lebanon I don’t think I would be able to find a support club. I was interested in knowing if there were other resources locally and I did find an OSU outreach page that offer grandparents additional resources. In my dream, when I was caring for Ella I was going to church less and in a study done by Szinovacz, DeViney and Atkinson (1999) this was common. Women were less likely to attend church while they were providing care for their grandchildren; however men were more likely to attend (p. 381). This study found that while grandchildren were living at the home there was an increase in social supports

The review of literature explains the previous studies in this dementia. Mainly this chapter is concern on health professionals’(primary care doctors', multi-expert professionals, nurses’) knowledge, practices and obstacles to diagnosis and management of dementia and will illustrate in details of background of dementia, diagnostic criteria, types, diagnostic barriers, diagnostic tools, criteria, challenges in assessment, treatment gap, dementia specialist, differences normal aging and dementia, dementia cost, and practices on dementia care. This literature presents the known concerns, challenges, practice settings about dementia from the health professionals and contributes the information of Nepalese medical community. One of the challenge to present literature for this study is no one study is found in Nepal so nothing data of dementia are available in the literature. Readers should be alert that while this study describing Nepal, it is focusing to the geographical area.

CCIB LPA Perryman-French received a call form Delores. Her mother, Bernice Howard (DOB 02/24/1925) has Alzheimers and dementia. Her mother was living at another facility, when she required an awake night staff. She was moved into this location around June 20 or 21st, 2015. Delores left the area and then returned on 07/05/15. During that time, she had her son checking on her. Sometime around 07/01/15 or 07/02/15, her son told her that he was told there was an altercation between staff "La" and Bernice in the kitchen. The result was bruises on her arms (where she was grabbed) and a visible scratch. Bernice informed her that she was hit, slapped, grabbed and scratched and also reported that she responded by getting her (La) back. The family had

After sitting in class on Tuesday, I started to reflect on the few times that I have been part of the care for a patient with dementia. The one situation that I remember the most happened while I was working as a paramedic. An older gentleman with dementia had wandered off from his home and had been missing for a couple of hours. I had always been taught not to play along with the patient’s fantasy, but to try to get them to realize what is going on. This was because of the danger of the patient running from scene. On this

Fernando, Fraser, Hendriksen, Kim & Muir-Hunter (2017) conducted a Systematic review on persons with dementia where it was found that persons with dementia are at a greater risk of falls and succumbing to major-fall related injuries, such as hip fractures. Mortality is also increased in people with dementia compared with non-cognitively impaired persons. Health professionals require an understanding of risk factors to enable them to develop falls prevention strategies that are effective and to reduce the negative impact that falls may have on an individuals’ quality of life. It is understood that risk factors unique to dementia affected persons include visual perception, attention-seeking behaviour, severity of dementia and cortical changes.

Dementia is an illness related to the loss of intellectual abilities and as the disease progresses it damages the ability to carry out activities of daily living (Andersen, Writtrup-Jensen, Lolk, Andersen, & Kragh-Sørensen, 2004). My patient, Seraphina, is an individual in the early stages of dementia. An individual with dementia often shows signs of memory loss and decreased social interaction. Therefore, an activity that would help improve these characteristics would be a baking class or a book club. Both of these activities improve social interaction because they take place in a group setting allowing for interaction among participants. Although these activities may not directly improve memory specifically, they do influence cognition as a whole.

REPORT: A proposed strategy to introduce a Dementia Care programme for patients with dementia within hospitals.