Dementia Case Studies Samples For Students

Question 1

Alzheimer is a disease that mainly affects the elderly. Individuals who suffer from this ailment usually experience irreversible and progressive brain function impairment. This leads to reduced intellectual ability.
Several signs and symptoms may occur in an individual, and these may lead to a probable diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. The most common of these include changes in behavior, mood and memory loss. Apart from there are several other occurrences that may lead to a probable diagnosis. Most of the are cognitive disturbances and include things such as failure to identify and recognize common objects, disturbances in planning, sequencing, organizing and ...

Nursing Older People: Dementia

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10) defines dementia as (1) a syndrome that is caused by a chronic or progressive disease of the brain, that (2) causes multiple disturbances of higher cortical functions, and (3) is characterized by impairment in memory without impairment in consciousness. Dementia affects all areas of the brain and can occur at any age but is more common in people over 65 years of age, affecting 20% of those aged over 80 (Gulland, 2012).
A clinical diagnosis of dementia is made when a patient develops cognitive impairment severe enough to ...

Abstract

In the movie Still Alice, Alice, a successful woman, after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease (AD) loses almost all she had. Alice’s case doesn’t typically fall under the traditional age bracket for the onset of Alzheimer’s because she is only 50. However, the symptoms she displays clearly fall under the earlier DSM-IV criteria of diagnosis. Under the new DSM-5 criteria, she would still be a fit case for Alzheimer’s because she has been experiencing a gradual decline in her autonomy. She loses control over her speech, mobility and motor functions until she becomes completely dependent on ...

Essay Assignment

Essay Assignment

Abstract

In this paper, the aspect of disease development is focused in five sections. A critical review of various health conditions attempts to demystify some contingencies that are attributable to the disease process. This approach becomes integral in establishing causal explanations for various health derangements. It covers the aspects of bio scientific research used to create strategies that help in mitigating disease occurrence. The outcomes of this paper are relevant in the subject of managing diseases in human populations across the world.
Q1.
Dementia is a mental disorder that begets memory impairment and personality changes (Flicker, 1999). Alzheimer’ ...

Chapter 1

Questions to consider

Dr. Maria Hunt the special education supervisor
What are the facts of the case?
Jake has been having learning disability over time. However, his teacher, Ms. Rose Weiss has been teaching him to overcome the learning challenge. Jake was making progress. As of September when Jake joined the learning disability class, he could not read three-letter words. After receiving one-hour instructions in a day with a focus on reading and presented with one hundred basic sight words, Jake could read them with an eighty percent accuracy. When given twenty single syllable nonsense words, he could also ...

Question#1

Nutrition also known as aliment or nourishment, is the stipulation, to organisms and cells, of the materials essential (in food form) to support life. Most common health complications can be curbed or combated with a healthy diet. The diet of an organism is determined by the palatability of foods with regard to what it eats. In this study I am going to let you know how nutrients need to change throughout the life cycle: during the infancy and early child hood, and adolescent and adult hood respectively.
Requirements for micronutrients and macronutrients are advanced on a per–kilogram base during ...

3. Activities
Ensure you acknowledge and cite your sources accordingly – this is important whether you use your own words or another writer’s. You can review the Academic Referencing Guide in your student handbook.

QUESTION 1:

There are mainly five principles of person-centered care. The first one is valuing people. This includes giving proper respect and dignity to the individuality of a person. The support-staff should be aware of the perspective of the individual. They should consider the value system of the patient, personal choices and also their beliefs. The second one is to offer a sense of autonomy to the ...

Abstract

This paper focuses on a case study involving a patient with heart disorder. The paper answers nine questions based on the case study. The case study helps provide insight into symptoms management heart diseases.

Question 1

Both health and nutritional status of PF are poor. To start with, he has a medical history of pulmonary edema. Pulmonary edema presents with among other signs and symptoms, shortness of breath and course breath sounds. Given that PF has been complaining of shortness of breath, it follows that he might be experiencing yet another episode of pulmonary edema. Pulmonary edema can also be suspected given that heart ...

PART 1: Pathophysiology template

Disease: Ischaemic Stroke
Definition:
An ischaemic stroke of the left dominant cerebral hemisphere is a stroke that occurs when the blood supply to the left side of the brain is obstructed. The blood supply contains nutrients and oxygen for the brain cells. For majority of the people, the left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for the control of the right side of and hence its failure affects the right side (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2010). It is also responsible for the control of speech and language (Hickey, 2009).

Aetiology:

Ischaemic Stroke of the left hemisphere is ...

Citation: Toyota Motor Mfg., Ky., Inc. v. Williams, 534 US 184 (2002).
Procedural History
Who is appealing on what issues?
The petitioner to the United States Supreme Court is Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky. They are appealing a decision by the Court of Appeals of the Sixth Circuit that Williams’ impairments substantially limited her in the major life activity of performing manual tasks, thus meeting the definition of “disabled” under the American Disabilities Act (ADA). In particular, they are asserting that the Court of Appeals applied an improper standard in making that determination.
What happened in the ...

Brain PET scans

Brain PET scans are imaging tests used to evaluate injury and disease in the brain pet scans are better than other imaging tests like magnetic imaging resonance and CT scans because they reveal the functioning of tissues of the brain. PET scans use radioactive materials called tracers. The tracer is injected through a vein in the elbow or may be inhaled as a gas. The tracer then circulates throughout the body and the patient has to wait for one hour for the tracer to be well circulated in the body. The person then lays onto a narrow table that then slides into a ...

Question 1.

- Location of pain, intensity and duration of pain can be misleading. Various causes of acute abdomen include appendicitis cholecystitis, hernia and other gynecological causes may be difficult to distinguish and diagnose.
- Uncertainty of diagnosis and difficulty to identify abdominal pathology owing to the many organs within the abdominal viscera. An examiner will occasionally miss a diagnosis by mistaking the affected organ with an adjacent organ.
- Pregnancy – pregnant women are usually difficult to examine per abdomen owing to the physical and physiological changes e.g. enlarged uterus.
- Small children might be difficult to examine – they ...