Dementia Vs Alzheimer's Research Paper

Background In this paper, I have chosen my own thesis topic ‘Dementia’ as a common health problems among elderly people to discuss different diverging aspects of dementia from different theoretical perspectives. In my thesis, I have planned to explore health care providers’ perspectives on dementia care in elderly homes in Nepal. When we talk about health and illness related to physical or mental health, we are more concerned about physiological and pathological process of human body. Biomedical model, which is most commonly used in health profession to understand the health, illness and disease through pathological processes,helps in undertaking therapeutic approach.

I. Just imagine waking up one morning and not knowing or remembering anything you did yesterday or the past years of your life? Well that’s what people who have dementia go through. They cannot remember who their kids are or anyone around them. II. Dementia effects your memory and a person’s ability to achieve a normal everyday task and activities.

Literature Review: According to the study conducted by Glickstein (1997), Alois Alzheimer was the person who identified the Alzheimer disease for the first time in 1906. Alois Alzheimer was a doctor and he identifies the Alzheimer disease in his patient (Auguste. D.) who was showing symptoms of paranoia, psychological changes and loss of memory. During the autopsy of the patient, Dr. Alois Alzheimer observed the shrinkage in brain cells and around the brain cells. In earlier days after the discovery of the Alzheimer disease, no treatment was given to Alzheimer’s patients because loss of memory or Alzheimer disease was considered as a natural process which happens with every individual.

Senile Dementia is a form of intellectual impairment observed in the elderly. Ten percent of people above the age of sixty-five have this disease. This causes people to forget items,people, and their lives. There are 4 types of remembering recollection,recall,recognition, and relearning which are all affected by Senile Dementia. Around 47 million people around the world suffer from this with ten-million of diagnosis being made each year.

Causality can be defined as a cause and effect relationship. In epidemiology cause is the exposure and effect is the disease or death. With Alzheimer’s disease I would use a pie model to identify the cause and effect of the disease. According to Friis and Sellers (2014), “The model indicates that a disease may be caused by more than one casual mechanism.” This relates to the risk factors of about 1 out of 20 people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer 's disease, also that women are more perceptible of getting this disease, as well as, people with that specific gene type, professional athletes, African Americans and Latinos.

According to Hylman (1992), elderly are people that is going through metabolic processes and physiological of aging so their functioning has become impaired. Based on Louw, Van & Louw (1998). change is a constant element of life. During the earlier life stages, physical, cognitive, personality and social changes enable the individual to acquire new skills and to explore new opportunities for learning. During old age, numerous changes still take place in the same areas.

In the documentary Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory a man named Dan Cohen believed that giving dementia patients music that connects to their emotions so it can help them remember their past. Studies show that the music can activate extra parts of the brain that aren't usually used. Music gives the elders in nursing homes, the ability to express themselves and be who they really are rather than being prescribed medicine that takes their lives away from them. Dan Cohen made it a mission to try and help as many people in nursing homes that have dementia, Alzheimer's, and memory loss. With over five million people in nursing homes Dan Cohen was trying to find a way to make it possible to have every person to get their own iPod so they can listen to music that helps bring back memories that they may have forgotten.

Enteral Tube Feeding and Severe Dementia Medicare covers many healthcare related services such as inpatient hospital stays, certain skilled nursing services in the long term care facilities, and hospice care for terminally ill beneficiaries or post-acute cares in home settings. Medicare coverage helps many beneficiaries to receive healthcare services that they require to live healthier lives through preventive wellness services as well as medical treatments that save lives. For example, a gastrostomy tube insertion benefits a patient with dysphagia related to an acute medical condition to rehab and regain independence to live a quality life. The gastrostomy tube enables the beneficiary to receive necessary nutrition and rehab to regain swallowing ability. Otherwise the beneficiary is at risk for many life threatening medical conditions such as aspiration pneumonia, or malnutrition.

Student Name: Kayla Stradomski Course # and Section/Time: COMM 101 DAH; Monday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:50 p.m. Topic: Alzheimer’s disease General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose Statement: To educate my audience on the aspects of Alzheimer’s disease. INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: Can you imagine your life if your memories and cognition slowly started deteriorating?

A person’s memory has got to be the one of the most important things that he or she could call as their own. No human being has the exact same memories, each individual has different experiences in life and that goes to the memories. The brain can hold a lot of information and it is such a great gift to have as a human. Unfortunately there are illnesses that may cause memory loss and one of them is dementia. There are so far no cure for this, it can only be slowed down but not fully cure it.