DEMENTIA

Dementia



Dementia

What is Dementia?

Dementia (is the progressive loss of cognitive function due to damage or brain disorders. Typically, this causes cognitive impairment, inability to perform activities of daily living. Cognitive deficits can affect anyone of brain functions particularly the areas of memory, language (aphasia), the care, skill Visio constructive, the praxis and executive functions such as problem solving or inhibition of responses. The concept of dementia relates only to the mental sphere and does not set itself any disease entity. There are many factors that can damage the brain and lead to a decline in mental ability. The weakening of this performance may have a different nature and severity (Gordeau, 2005, pp. 12). In severe cases, a person with dementia can not in any way to be active professionally, socially, is not able to perform activities of daily living, may have significant difficulties with communication and in establishing contact with others, and with the activity of providing satisfying physiological needs, and "therefore" be entirely dependent on third parties, requiring constant nursing care. While such an dangerous situation is unlikely to raise doubts, problems with defining what dementia is appear in the lighter cases where mental impairment is not as advanced. Dementia is not an intellectual disability; a concept gets reserved for developmental disorders, as it defined by a low intelligence quotient measured by a test of the Wechsler scale. Meanwhile, dementia relates to adults, mostly elderly, who before the appearance of brain damaging factor had higher mental alertness. In some cases, the overall efficiency of the property, measured psychometrycznie study psychology may even be entirely correct, while some areas of cognitive functioning gets clearly impaired and contribute to a significant deterioration in the functioning of such a person, in the field of professional and social, as well as activities of daily living (Anetzberger, 2000, pp. 492).

Rationale

The emergence of Dementia and the symptoms of the disorder

The factors and causes of Dementia

theory regarding the range of factors influencing the experience of dementia, to develop an understanding of the experience of living with dementia

Most people have forgotten ever any names, dates or places. These oversights have nothing to do with the onset of the disease. A person with dementia may get lost in familiar places, forgetting names of close relatives, and not remember how to dress, how to read or how to open a door. Dementia is a syndrome of progressive cognitive impairment is severe enough to interfere functionally in social life, work, family and patient staff. Apart from memory disorders, central feature of dementia, the following requirements must be met for the clinical diagnosis of dementia:

There should be no disturbance of consciousness.

They should also be affected, two or more of the following areas of cognition: language, attention, ability to abstract the trial and reasoning, perception, mathematical calculation, praxis (ability to perform small tasks and specific movements in response to an appropriate stimulus), gnosis (cognitive ability to recognize and interpret sensory stimuli, etc.).

Generally there are changes in personality, affective disorders and psychotic ...