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A 5 page research paper that discusses dementia. The writer discusses what dementia is (its various forms); how it affects the individual, families and society; and offers nursing intervention suggestions. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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with full autonomy. As this suggests, dementia has a tremendous impact on individuals, their families, and society as a whole. Individuals are faced with the loss not only of their
full cognitive faculties, but also with a loss of autonomy as they must now be dependent on others for their safety and well being. Families are often burdened with the
care of relatives suffering from dementia when obtaining full-time nursing care is problematic. Society suffers from the medical costs involved. This examination of dementia explores what it is, its
impact, and possible nursing interventions. Dementia is a "serious and progressive neurological disorder that afflicts up to 10 percent of adults ages 65 to 85, 20 percent of
adults 75 to 85, and 50 percent of adults over age 85" (Arnold, 2004, p. 36). Many people associate a loss of cognitive functioning as a natural part of aging,
but this is not dementia (Odenheimer & Wieland, 2001). Dementia is defined as a syndrome, or rather as a cluster of syndromes, and is not a diagnosis in its own
right (Brown and Hillam, 2004). Its causes are wide ranging, including not only primary degenerative and vascular disorders but also many other physical conditions" (Brown and Hillam, 2004,
p. 1). Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is caused by a series of strokes, which are frequently small (MID, n.d.). Patients with MID exhibit symptoms that are similar to Alzheimers disease;
however, there are distinctions between these two forms of dementia. Alzheimers has a distinctive presentation of symptoms, such as memory impairment, while MID, since it is caused by stroke, can
generate a broad variety of symptoms, such as speech impairment (MID, n.d.). Different forms of dementia affect different areas of the brain. Alzheimers, for example, affects the parietal and temporal
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