Essays Tagged: "Dementia"
Huntington's disease
l death associated with choreic movements(uncontrollable movements of the arms, legs, and face) and dementia. It is one of themore common inherited brain disorders. About 25,000 Americans have it and ... cated on chromosome 4. The classic signs of Huntington diseaseare progressive chorea, rigidity, and dementia, frequently associated with seizures.Studies & ResearchStudies were done to determine i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Huntington's disease
chorea, or irregular, jerking movements of the limbs caused by involuntary muscle contractions, and dementia. It can cause a lack of concentration and depression. It also may cause atrophy of the caud ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Huntingsons diease
death associated with choleric movements (uncontrollable movements of the arms, legs, and face) and dementia. It is one of the more common inherited brain disorders. About 25,000 Americans have it and ... ated on chromosome 4. The classic signs of Huntington disease are progressive chorea, rigidity, and dementia, frequently associated with seizures. Studies & Research Studies were done to determine ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Schizophrenia: Explained and Treatments
when Emil Kraepelin concluded after a comprehensive study of thousands of patients that a 'state of dementia was supposed to follow precociously or soon after the onset of the illness.' Eugene Bleuler ... history. I probably inherited a predisposition to mental illness; my uncle was diagnosed as having dementia praecox', an earlier term for schizophrenia. In my senior year of high school, I began to e ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Three situations in a social care setting
ward of an NHS hospital.An elderly patient is in hospital in a public ward, she has a diagnosis of dementia, which causes her to suffer from periods of paranoid delusions. She is in hospital for a br ... visits might be suggested, closing curtains for more privacy too. Recommending a support group for Dementia, to help her husband come to terms with things better would also be a suggestion. Provide r ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
The Benefits of Home Schooling. A short essay which compares home schooling to the traditional public school and lists many of the benefits of home schooling.
n on the down slope for many years. With the increased amount of drugs, school shootings, and other dementia in these schools, more and more parents are making the choice to home school their children ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Huntington's Disease
seaseHuntington's Disease (HD) is an inherited conditions characterized by abnormal body movements, dementia, and psychiatric problems. Huntington's Disease is a progressive disorder involving degener ... th Huntington's disease to monitor for symptoms and treat accordingly.Symptomatic treatment for the dementia is similar to that used for any organic brain syndrome. Initially, reminders and aids may i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, including care, nursing diagnosis, signs and symptoms.
Dementia is a set of conditions, medically diagnosed, and leading to recognized and measurable behav ... medically diagnosed, and leading to recognized and measurable behavioral changes in an individual. Dementia of the Alzheimer's type is a chronic cognitive disorder that is manifested in impairment of ... te of another. The number of neurotransmitters have been found in the brain tissue of patients with dementia and Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's disease accounts for about 70% of dementia cases. Over 4 milli ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
"The Fortune Teller" by Kenneth S. Kosik, The Sciences, Jul/Aug 1999, pp.13-17.
ed 12 interrelated families living in Columbia, all suffering from a mysterious early-onset form of dementia. Kosik agreed to assist Lopera in a search for the gene mutation responsible for what they ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
This is an example of a case study done on a nursing home resident with dementia. Includes physical assessment data
at a young age. Her date of admission was July 8, 2002 with the diagnosis of left hip fracture and dementia. She was hospitalized for the left hip fracture on July 2, 2002, and then transferred to th ... hronological Development of Clients Number One Medical DiagnosisE.S.'s primary medical diagnosis is dementia. Her hip fracture may have been caused by changes in muscle coordination/balance, which is ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Alzheimer's and the effects. This is a informative piece of writing explaining Alzheimer's and the effects of the disease.
Alzheimer's is a disease of the brain that causes a loss in memory. This results in dementia, loss of brain functions (thinking, remembering, and reasoning) severe enough to interfere ... disease in 1907, it was thought to be rare. Today, Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, affecting 10% of people 65 years old, and nearly 50% of those age 85 or older. An estimate ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Identify the characters which make the aged a unique entity.
quite unique.There are many health issues and chronic illnesses associated with the aged, such as; dementia, Parkinson's disease, stroke, heart attack, arthritis, vision and hearing problems, high bl ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
FACING DISABILITIES IN AGED CARE. covers some types of disabilities (mental and physical) one expects to come accross working in aged care.
tered working in aged care could include Communication, a high percentage of residents in care have dementia and cannot comprehend the message being sent, in some cases are unable to construct a coher ... the causes of behavioral issues. Disruptive and abnormal behavior is common and may be a result of dementia, causing the resident to do obscene things without comprehension. Attention seeking activit ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Critical Academic Analysis of a Media Article
ornia, Irvine, and depression is a 'Syndrome' that has no true underlying illness. Syndrome is like dementia. First, you have to have a change in mood that is not typical of you. When mood changes and ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
A Vivid Nightmare Topic: Imaginative Literature Notes: An amazing essay that uses extreme diction and imagery.
It was yet another antagonizing day at work. Fatigue and dementia soon befell on me. I was elated to know that I was excused from tomorrow's duty. I stumbled ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing
Delirium and its effects in patients
lone. This article mainly discusses key factors in the etiology and progression of delirium, dementia, and depression. The whole article deals with the struggle that Ethel Darbes has to go thro ... peating actions, questions, and requests. Ms. Darbes's apparent memory loss were symptoms of dementia--a slowly progressing, generally irreversible loss of intellectual function. It affects bot ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. Dementia is the loss of intellectual and social abilities severe enough to interfere with ... cur vary from person to person. For some people the progression from simple forgetfulness to severe dementia takes 5 years. For others, it can take 10 years or more. Alzheimer's usually progresses fro ... other diseases and conditions that can also cause memory loss. Small, undetected strokes can cause dementia by temporarily interrupting blood flow to the brain. People with Parkinson's disease can al ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Alzhiemer's disease.
ry.Introduction.Alzheimer's disease, a neurodegenerative brain disease, is the most common cause of dementia. It currently afflicts about 4 million Americans and is the fourth leading cause of death i ... is and hopes of a cure for Alzheimer's disease.History.Around the turn of the century, two kinds of dementia were defined by Emil Kraepin: senile and presenile. The presenile form was described more i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Contrast the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease with those of Parkinson's disease. What causes these different symptoms and how does this affect the treatment of these disorders?
rillary tangles) composed of misplaced proteins in the brain. It is by far the most common cause of dementia (Please see Fig. 1). First described and named after the German neurologist Alois Alzheimer ... y problems will worsen, and eventually they will die, most likely from infection.Fig. 1 - Causes of Dementia in the UKParkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disorder that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Alzheimers
. Although the disease was once considered rare, research has shown that it is the leading cause of dementia.DementiaDementia is an umbrella term for several symptoms related to a decline in thinking ... learning, loss of language skills, and decline in the ability to perform routine tasks.People with dementia also experience changes in their personalities and behavioral problems, such as agitation, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases