...Dementia Alzheimer’s I. INTRODUCTION a. Attention Device – Alzheimer’s disease has had a huge impact on many lives. The Alz.org, estimates that about a half million Americans younger than age 65 have some form of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. 1 in 9 people over the age of 65 is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. b. Tie to the audience – Everyone has a loved one over the age of 65 or may know someone who has a tough time remembering things, and even witness strange behavior in elderly people. Behaviors such as wearing multiple layers of clothes, aggressiveness and even lack of communication. These may very well be symptoms c. Credentials – In 2009 my grandmother, who was 69 years of age was diagnosed with dementia Alzheimer’s. I have sought...
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...children about Alzheimer's disease is a respectful conversation to have with them. It is a way for them to understand what is happening to your parent or loved one. It also conditions them to feel comfortable around an Alzheimer's sufferer, and allows better communications with them. There are currently over four million people in the United States who are suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD). Researchers have determined that nearly 360,000 additional cases will be reported each year. What is most disturbing for seniors is that Alzheimer's generally appears in people over the age of 65. The highest rates of the disease happen to seniors 85 and older. Trying to predict the progression of Alzheimer's disease has been an...
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...Zach Smith Speech Prep and Delivery Shannon Dyer February 26, 2015 Informative Speech Outline 1.) The purpose of this speech is to inform. 2.) I want my listeners to understand the funcionality of the three parts of the brain . 3.) The three parts of the brain are the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. Intro First Sentence | The definition of anarchy is a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority. A country without a leader will not last. An army without a general will likely be obliterated. Functioning systems require something in control in order for survival. Your body is a functioning system and the brain is in control. Without your brain, your body would be an anarchy and could not survive. Preview Sentence | I will explain to you the three parts of the brain, which are the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain, and the basic functions of the different structures within these main parts. Body I | Forebrain, including the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus. II | Midbrain, including the tectum and tegmentum. III | Hindbrain, including the cerebellum, pons, and medulla Conclusion Summary | And now you should understand the three parts of the brain, the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain, and the basic functions of the different structures within these main parts. Final Sentence | Now, you can use your brain to think about how your brain works. Sources "3 Main Parts of the Brain | Alzheimer's Association." 3 Main Parts of the Brain...
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...Informative Speech - Caffeine SaVana A. Nye 2013 SPCH-1010 Gott 12/1/2013 SaVana A. Nye 12/1/2013 Speech Outline Gott – SPCH 1010 Introduction – * What is caffeine? * The effects of caffeine intake * Tips for caffeine consumption * Within my discussion, I will weigh both the benefits and detrimental effects of how caffeine can alter the senses, as well as discuss how to assess your caffeine intake against the daily recommended amount of the drug. Body - * Caffeine is a huge part of our daily lives and our intake often reflects our health status. * The drug can often be found in many products throughout our society. * It can often be used in moderation in order to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, and even asthma. (Hensrud, 2010) * This is a major source of alertness, altering mood, and improving concentration. * While safe to use in moderation, the consumption levels of most Americans is often dangerous and can be detrimental to their health. * Insomnia, dizziness, and anxiety are often signs of over-consumption of caffeine. * Those who consume large amounts frequently become addicted and dependent on the drug. * Overdose has been reported from the drug and is a rising concern. * Monitoring and implementing a caffeine-regulating diet is essential through reading nutritional labels and knowing ingredients within the products you consume on a daily basis...
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...September 23, 2015 Informative speech outline Benefits of playing guitar: Craetive Therapy Specific Goal: inform audience of benefits of learning to play guitar. A. When I say word guitar, many of you may think of rock stars like Jimi Hemdrix or Eddy Van Halen. But playing guitar is not reserved just for rock stars, anyone can play! B. Couple months ago, I tried my hand at picking the guitar and have been teaching myself a hobby I really enjoy! C. Learning to play can have many benefits other than becoming a rock star. Playing guitar can be good for your health, is a creative way to express yourself, and could benefit you financially. 1. Learning to play guitar, or any instrument, has many health benefits. A. Have you ever found yourself stressed out, only to turn on radio in your car and hear a song you love? Almost puts you in A better mood. That's because music is scientifically proven to reduce stress. According to the American physiological association listening to music is a great therapy for stress and anxiety. That being said playing music yourself has the same effect You can't worry about whatever has you upset if you're focused on hitting the right notes while you play. B. Learning to play an instrument is also great exercise for your joints. When you play guitar at your fingers must remain limber and practicing keep your joints and limber help you reduce risk of getting arthritis as you get older. C. Playing guitar includ playing...
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...Life Less Taken In the poem “Alzheimer’s”, Kelly Cherry describes Alzheimer’s disease by observing a man’s life, as he experiences a new lifestyle, all while showing the effects of dementia and the disease. The setting of the poem and the narrator’s fluctuating tone convey multiple emotions and thoughts to allow readers a glance into not only the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, but the struggles as well. The speaker’s tone progresses from an attitude of acceptance to an attitude of great concern; and finally to an attitude that describes the seriousness of the setting at certain times. When the man is introduced into the poem, he is described as crazy with a mind that he is not accustomed to. As the setting is further elaborated upon, the man is overcome with worry and he begins to question the important things. The speaker indicates the man is no longer the man he used to be right at the beginning. As the story continues to unfold, the setting and tone is built upon by adding the house and mentioning his belongings such as the piggy bank. By describing his memory and what the man has forgotten, the narrator is implying important, significant, and unimportant things in the old man’s life. As the poem is read, the tone and setting identified by the narrator allows the reader to catch a glimpse of how Alzheimer’s disease has not only affected the man, but how the disease could affect the reader. Alzheimer’s disease is a disease causing dementia...
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...increase blood and oxygen flow to the brain and keep nerve connections healthy, which are factors that repel dementia. Being bilingual is also extremely advantageous to adults, too. Bilingual adults have denser gray matter in their brains. Gray matter is brain tissue filled with information-processing nerve cells and fibers. Susan Perry states that the denser material is more on the left hemisphere on the brain because the left hemisphere is where the language center is controlled. The effect is strongest in people who learned a second language before the age of five. This evidence suggests that being bilingual from an early age could greatly alter the brain's structure. This is leading to a better understanding of how the brain organizes speech and communication tasks, and also showing greater insight into how specific types of brain activity may prevent dementia. The new discoveries neurologists and psychologists are making about the bilingual brain might just be creating a new...
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...Zaireen Rahaman Public Speaking: Persuasive Speech Who in here is a vegetarian? For those who did not put their hands up might want to change their minds in the end on how they feel about eating meat or wearing products made from or tested on animals. Most of us grew up consuming meat, wearing clothing made from animals, and has seen animals at zoos or circuses. Have you ever considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved? Animals raised on modern factory farms and killed in slaughtered houses endure unimaginable suffering. I hope once you listen to what I have to say about the routine cruelty involved in raising, transporting, and killing animal for food you’ll join the millions of people to leave meat of their plate and prohibit the cruelty of animals. If slaughter houses had glass walls everyone would be vegetarian. In modern factory farms, animals are jam-packed by the thousands into grimy, enclosed sheds and restricted to wire cages, dirt lots, and other brutal confinement systems. These animals would never have the opportunity to raise their families, or do anything that is of their natural instincts. The majority would not even feel the sun’s rays or breathe fresh air until they are hoarded away on to trucks; headed for slaughtering. ‘Old Mc Donald had a farm’ is not as it once was. If slaughter houses had glass walls everyone would be vegetarian. Chickens have the ability to reason in some instances that are greater than dogs and children yet they are...
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...Glucose Levels and Risk of Dementia Introduction Dementia is a severe decrease in mental ability that dramatically reduces the ability of the brain to carry out its normal functions. It impairs the overall behavior, memory, and thinking of an afflicted individual. Alzheimer’s is a very well-known type of dementia that affects a large amount of people of older age. Dementia can cause memory loss, loss of coordination, speech impediments and loss of focus. Dementia can be caused a number of factors such as result for head injury, disease and changes in chemical level balance in the brain. One of those chemicals that can be found in the brain is glucose. “Glucose is the main fuel for metabolic processes the brain. A constant supply of glucose...
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...Design for Elderly Friendly Nurul Hidayah Ahmad Alemi SYS 705 Advanced Interaction Design Universiti Teknologi MARA nurul0903@yahoo.com Abstract—A number of senior citizen population or elderly people increased every year. There are many difficulties and weaknesses involve as we get older such as cognitive disabilities, memory decline, poor vision, thus the assistive technology nowadays should follows some design specification that suitable for an elderly to satisfy and simplify their everyday life needs. Hence, this paper attempts to discuss about the issues, concept, applications and design for elderly friendly in details. Keywords—Elderly: Assistive Technology: Design for Elderly. II. ISSUES In the past few years, people assume elderly pathetic, poor and unfortunate also useless. They have been national development and nation. On the other hand, designer should follow some design guidelines on how to design the assistive technology or application that suitable for the elderly depending on their type of impairment or disabilities. considered not so important in the community. Nowadays, community realize that the elderly should involve or participate in the social and community activities as they had a lot of knowledge, experience and I. INTRODUCTION Elderly is defined as aged 60 years and above. The number of older people is rapidly increasing in Malaysia and also in developing countries [1],[2]. The rapid wisdom that can be shared to give some ideas in the requirement...
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...Ageism. In this assignment I will discuss my learning outcome from the group discussion and the collaboration of the poster and mind mapping, I will also critically analyse and discuss the public attitude, and my personal perception towards ageism. To gain knowledge of different relationships and how ageism affects society, I will also discuss key concepts in relation towards the inequality and discrimination expressed towards this group of the population. I will examine how the health service and social care professionals conduct themselves towards care of the elderly, and the actions they take to resolve discriminatory practices to reduce social inequality in respect of the elderly. Patch1 After reflecting on my own attitudes regarding my understanding of the elderly, I found that I held similar views in that once an elderly person had reached a particular age they can be easily disregarded as a useful member of society, however my views were not based on any known facts or any valid experience that I had encountered, but rather on my personal interpretation and general stereotype towards the elderly, after our group discussion and after reading relevant literature concerning ageism my opinion has changed. Ageism was introduced by Robert Butler (1969) suggesting it was a process whereby an older person was systematically stereotyped with prejudicial attitudes directed towards them. This was deemed as discrimination. According to (McGlone...
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...section Vi essay forms Many people use the term “essay” to mean any paper written for a class. In actuality, there are many different types of essays, each of which has a unique purpose, form, and style. We call these different types of essays “modes of discourse,” and they include expository, persuasive, and comparecontrast essays to name just a few. This section of the Guide has a dual purpose. First, various types of essays are described and suggestions are included about how to approach each particular type of writing. Second, the sample essays are good tools for you to see how these different essays look in their final form. These are not templates (no essay can be a carbon copy of another even in form), but they will give you a good idea of what a final piece of writing for each mode of discourse looks like. It would be advantageous to critically analyze the form and content of each sample against the instruction for how to write each type of essay. chapter 21 expository essays Jennifer propp An expository essay explains something using facts rather than opinions. The purpose of this type of essay is to inform an audience about a subject. It is not intended to persuade or present an argument of any kind. Writing this type of essay is a good way to learn about all the different perspectives on a topic. Many students use the expository essay to explore a variety of topics, and do so in a wide range of formats, including “process” and “definition”...
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...This page intentionally left blank The Study of Language This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study – from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. The online study guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language. George Yule has taught Linguistics at the Universities of Edinburgh, Hawai’i, Louisiana State and Minnesota. He is the author of a number of books, including Discourse Analysis (with Gillian Brown, 1983) and Pragmatics (1996). “A genuinely introductory linguistics text, well suited for undergraduates who have little prior experience thinking descriptively about language. Yule’s crisp and thought-provoking presentation of key issues works...
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...GROUP INTERACTION JOURNAL ARTICLES Compiled by Lawrence R. Frey University of Colorado at Boulder Aamodt, M. G., & Kimbrough, W. W. (1982). Effects of group heterogeneity on quality of task solutions. Psychological Review, 50, 171-174. Abbey, D. S. (1982). Conflict in unstructured groups: An explanation from control-theory. Psychological Reports, 51, 177-178. Abele, A. E. (2003). The dynamics of masculine-agentic and feminine-communal traits: Findings from a prospective study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 768-776. Abele, A., Gendolla, G. H. E., & Petzold, P. (1998). Positive mood and in-group—out-group differentiation in a minimal group setting. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1343-1357. Aberson, C. L., Healy, M., & Romero, V. (2000). Ingroup bias and self-esteem: A meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4, 157-173. Abougendia, M., Joyce, A. S., Piper, W. E., & Ogrodniczuk, J. S. (2004). Alliance as a mediator of expectancy effects in short-term group psychotherapy. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 8, 3-12. Abraham, A. (1973a). Group tensions as measured by configurations of different self and transself aspects. Group Process, 5, 71-89. Abraham, A. (1973b). A model for exploring intra and interindividual processes in groups. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 23, 3-22. Abraham, A. (1974-1975). Processes in groups. Bulletin de Psychogie, 28, 746-758. Abraham, A., Geffroy, Y., & Ancelin-Schutzenberger...
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...A SECOND COURSE IN STATISTICS REGRESSION ANALYISIS Seventh Edition William Mendenhall University of Florida Terry Sincich University of South Florida Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Toronto Madrid Delhi Milan Mexico Munich City Sao Paris Paulo Montreal Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editor in Chief: Deirdre Lynch Acquisitions Editor: Marianne Stepanian Associate Content Editor: Dana Jones Bettez Senior Managing Editor: Karen Wernholm Associate Managing Editor: Tamela Ambush Senior Production Project Manager: Peggy McMahon Senior Design Supervisor: Andrea Nix Cover Design: Christina Gleason Interior Design: Tamara Newnam Marketing Manager: Alex Gay Marketing Assistant: Kathleen DeChavez Associate Media Producer: Jean Choe Senior Author Support/Technology Specialist: Joe Vetere Manufacturing Manager: Evelyn Beaton Senior Manufacturing Buyer: Carol Melville Production Coordination, Technical Illustrations, and Composition: Laserwords Maine Cover Photo Credit: Abstract green flow, ©Oriontrail/Shutterstock Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and Pearson was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial caps or all caps. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mendenhall, William. A second course in...
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