individuals with dementia and the importance of inclusion DEM 310 3 3 23 31/03/2015 Y/601/3544 Unit purpose and aim This unit is aimed at those who provide care or support to individuals with dementia in a wide range of settings. The unit covers the concepts of equality‚ diversity and inclusion that are fundamental to person centred care practice. Learning Outcomes The learner will: 1 Understand the concept of diversity and its relevance to working with individuals who have dementia Assessment Criteria
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1 Improving Wound and Pressure Area Care in a Nursing Home‚ Author: Sparkes K‚(2010)‚ Journal : Nursing Standard The purpose is to assess the gap and competency in nursing care‚ improve patient outcome by promoting standardized‚ assimilated care. Also‚ utilizing the best practice in wound care‚ and thereby reducing the severity‚ and number of wound in a community within a nursing home Qualitative and Quantitative Descriptive and experimental Two theoretical training sessions were delivered
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1. What will you consider to be a barrier to quality work within your team? How do you handle this? The biggest challenge that I see which I choose not to call barrier as team leader is on days when there are multiple call in and this has to do with dealing with a prescriber clinic of at least 18 patients. At times‚ the clerical staff will have time to call patients and give then the options of rescheduling since their therapist are out‚ but at times the patients will still desire to come in. In
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Imagine that you are soaring through space‚ marveling in its’ beauty and glory. You realize man’s insignificance as you peer out the tiny porthole looking at the milky radiance as you cruise silently through the “phosphorescent sea”. You are pulled from your gaze by the sound of your onboard printer working away‚ and then reality hits you. It is your daily 6 foot long list of tasks that NASA has sent you after they finished their daily gripe session about being overworked‚ understaffed‚ and underpaid
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Understand the process and experience of dementia 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome Dementia is a term describing a wide range of symptoms associated with the decline of the memory‚ or other cognitive or sensorial skills that reduce a person’s ability to perform day by day activities. This term refers to Alzheimer disease‚ Vascular dementia‚ Dementia with Lewy bodies‚ Parkinson’s disease‚ Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease‚ Huntington’s disease in the same time. What causes this range
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Assignment #3 Supervision Scenario Case #1 In the first supervision scenario there is an example of patient’s noncompliance with MDs protocol. The orthopedic MD should be contacted by PT prior to initiation of exercises to verify for any protocol adjustments. Since this case involves stretching that requires continuous examination and evaluation throughout the intervention it’s required to be performed exclusively by the physical therapist as stated in APTA Guidelines: “The physical therapist’s
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Real World Negotiation - A Family Vacation All Inclusive‚ 7 night vacation in the Mayan Riviera; heaven… with family! A total of 15 people decided to plan a vacation. Throw a few people that are extremely stubborn with a few that are picky and some that are price sensitive and you have a messy multiparty negotiation. Luckily we all agreed on the location quickly as most of the group has not travelled there before. Out of the 15 people‚ 7 were the decision makers / negotiators – those are
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Alzheimer’s and Dementia really the same thing? Aysha Culliver December 13‚ 2012 5th Period Woodward Purpose I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer’s is not the person they knew. I wander to myself. Who are they then? –Bob DeMarco. What is Alzheimer ’s disease? Alzheimer ’s disease is a disease that slowly and little by little destroys brain cells. It is neither transmittable nor contagious‚ but is the single most common cause of dementia. A condition that
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living with Alzheimer’s and nearly 44 million people worldwide have Alzheimer’s or dementia related disease‚ according to alzheimers.net (2016). As the disease progresses dementia patients become increasingly confused. Many forget who they are including losing most memories they once shared with their loved ones. In addition‚ as the disease progresses many individuals become depressed‚ anxious and agitated in dementia patients because of feeling lost and uneasy in their environment. However‚ they can
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Understand the process and experience of dementia. 1. Understand the neurology of dementia. 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome. The Cambridge dictionary describes dementia as “ medical condition that affects especially old people‚ causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse‚ leading to confused behaviour”. Basically dementia is a serious deterioration in mental functions such as memory‚ language‚ orientation and judgement. This illness however
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