Dementia is an illness that affects certain parts of the brain. It is a progressive decline in cognitive function of the brain due to damage/injury or disease. It is marked by memory disorders those with dementia may find it hard on remembering simple things that progressively gets worse as time goes on. Dementia includes personality changes and day to day life. 1.2 Describe the key functions of the brain that are effected by dementia Key functions affected by dementia are: Temporal lobe – responsible
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The Power of LACE Miriam Elia Powerhouse Museum ‘Love Lace’ 30 July 2011 – July 2013 Stereotypes are being challenged universally. The ‘Love Lace’ exhibition is a contemporary collection of artworks challenging the misconceptions of lace, exhibited in Sydney’s Powerhouse museum. Over 130 artists from 20 different countries have explored lace in a range of new and interesting ways and unanimously showing the significance of space in art. The exhibition as a whole engages in laces pre-perceived
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Occupational Therapy and Compassion Fatigue: How to help the caregiver get care By Randi Johnson Hanson MSRS, OTR/L The topic of “Compassion Fatigue” has been a hot topic within the caregiving profession of nursing in the past decade. Joinson (1992) defines compassion fatigue as “a unique and expanded form of burnout in which the environmental stressors of the workplace coupled with the patient’s physical and emotional needs contributes to the caregiver becoming tired, depressed, angry, ineffective
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Assessing Mental Status Most of a mental status assessment can be done during an interview. Assess the patient’s appearance, behavior, mood, thought processes and cognitive function, coping mechanisms, and potential for self-destructive behavior. Record your findings. Most of us already do an assessment of mental status everyday, esp. in our jobs. But now we are going to take a little closer observation. Mental Status exam is a FOCUSed exam. Used for screening, assess state of consciousness (expected
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This reflection will discuss skills development, professional awareness and personal development over the past seven weeks whilst on placement with a Primary Care Dementia Practitioner. I will be using Rolfe’s model of reflection which describes the event and the facts, then goes onto discuss why this has been important with the use of an appropriate evidence base and finally to discuss what could be done in the future to improve future practice and make recommendations (Jasper ) What Whilst
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Why the memory affected as one does grows old? Research indicates that memory may start to develop even before you are born. As a child your capacity for memory becomes increasingly sophisticated and then as you progress in old age your memory may deteriorate. So let’s start at the beginning. Within a few days of birth most infants are able to recognize their mother's voice and face, and within a few weeks, their father's voice. The next big jump in memory ability occurs around nine months
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Does the identity of a person survive if that person succumbs to dementia? In his essay, Matthews, explores the different views, of Locke, Parfit and Merleau-Ponty, and how they define the identity of a person and how that definition applies to a person suffering from dementia. In this essay, I will summarize Merleau-Ponty’s definition and give his ideas on how to treat a person with dementia. I will then do the same for Locke and Parfit. Finally, I will compare both theories. In this essay
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Barnes, A. M., Duncan, G., Weis, M., Paton, W., Cabral, W. A., Mertz, E. L., & ... Marini, J. C. (2013). Kuskokwim syndrome, a recessive congenital contracture disorder, extends the phenotype of FKBP10 mutations. Human Mutation, 34(9), 1279-1288. Alaskan native Yup’ik Eskimos of the Kuskokwim River delta region are susceptible to suffer from Kuskokwim syndrome, which is defined as “an autosomal recessive congenital contracture disorder.” The large joints of these individuals can become severely
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Implicit memory also referred to as unconscious memory refers to the unintentional retrieval of information that got obtained during a certain learning episode on tests that do not need conscious recollection of the previous learning episode (Garrett, 1975). Explicit memory, on the other hand, is the memory performance in which it can retrieve a previous learning episode consciously. Implicit memory requires very little effort to recall, whereas explicit memory requires significant and more concentrated
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Aspartate and glutamate act as neurotransmitters in the brain by facilitating the transmission of information from neuron to neuron. Too much aspartate or glutamate in the brain kills certain neurons by allowing the influx of too much calcium into the cells. This influx triggers excessive amounts of free radicals, which kill the cells. The neural cell damage that can be caused by excessive aspartate and glutamate is why they are referred to as "excitotoxins." They "excite" or stimulate the neural
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