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Caring for individuals with dementia.
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P3Explain the effects of three different types of dementia on the mental and
physical health of individuals who have the condition.
A holistic approach is important with someone with dementia as they have
a range of needs that have to be covered. To help them with the transition
of not having carers or support workers in their home or them being
moved to a care home, an advocate can be provided to see their wishes,
needs and circumstances. “Marchione, 2016”
The 3 types of dementia are Lewy Body, Frontotemporal Dementia and
Vascular dementia. Lewy Body has physical effects on an individual.
“Gregory, 2000”
The individual may start fainting and may fall often than usual, may have
dysphagia (so they may have swallowing problems), their muscles may be
rigid(If their muscles are rigid, it may stop them from doing certain
activities they could do before on their own like difficulty walking, sitting
upright) uncontrollable shaking so meaning that they may be shaking
constantly that it cannot be stopped. “Campbell, 2003”
Mentally, the person may have problems with their thinking as it would
affect their thinking so their process of thinking may be slow that the
individual when asked a question may not respond as quickly as someone
without Lewy Body, during the later stage they may lose their memory,
which can change their moods like they may become confused, then may
after become depressed or fearful if they start losing their memory, they
may be depressed and have anxiety, they may start hallucinating so they
may see or hear things that are not there which may cause them to be
distressed and panic as a result. “Campbell, 2003”
Frontotemporal Dementia can not only effects on the physical health of an
, individual but their mental health as well. The effects it has on their
physical health are the individual the person may have muscle spasms the
person may frequently tap their foot repetitively, their muscles may be
weak so they may have trouble lifting heavy equipment's, poor
coordination which may cause the individual to fall often and hold objects
when walking for balance, and the person may have tremors where their
hands are shaking often which may stopped them from doing fine motor
activities like writing, typing and dressing. “Campbell, 2003”
This dementia can have effects on a person’s mental health as well. They
may have lost the ability to use language properly, show lack of interest to
things they once enjoyed, no longer know the meaning of words, and may
make mistakes in sentence construction. Which can even worsen their
mental health like they may have low self-esteem if they lose that ability to
use language properly and to them it means that they may not be able to
articulate themselves so that others may understand them. This vascular
dementia can have effects on an individual’s physical and dementia. The
effects on the physical aspect of the person are their inability to control
bladder or bowel, and they would have an increasing difficulty with their
daily activities like paying bills, and getting lost on familiar routes, and
there would be changes in their sleep patterns so they may struggle to
sleep. “Campbell, 2003”
The effects of the dementia on the mental health of the individual are they
would start hallucinating, have poor judgement, which can have a negative
consequence for the individual, so they may make poor choices, and loss
of ability to perceive danger, and there may be changes in their personality
so they may become depressed. Also, they have difficulty reading and
writing which may have an impact on their self-esteem. It can cause them
to have low self-esteem. Also, if they have poor judgement, they make
choices that may put their lives in danger. “Gregory, 2000”
Reference
,Marchione, V. (2016) Bel Marra, Bel Marra Health - Breaking Health News and Health
Information. Available at: https://www.belmarrahealth.com/dementia-patients-may-
benefit-holistic-approach-mealtimes-exercise/ (Accessed: 17 June 2023).
Gregory, N. (2000) Types of dementia. better understanding your dementia., Dementia.org.
Available at: https://www.dementia.org/types (Accessed: 17 June 2023).
Campbell, N. (2003) Understanding different types of dementia, National Institute on Aging.
Available at: https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/infographics/understanding-different-types-
dementia (Accessed: 17 June 2023).
P4 Discuss the effects of three different types of dementia on the quality of life
and wellbeing of people who have the condition.
For this type of dementia, Vascular dementia effect on an individual can affect their quality
of life. It can affect the individual as in their development as a person, physically,
intellectually, emotionally and socially. The effects of dementia on the individual physically
is that the person may have problem with problem solving so they may have problem
handling their money and balancing not spending too much money. “Mason, 2023”
Which can result to the individual being broke and possibly homeless (which would be how
it affects their quality of life) as a result of not being to able to problem solve on issues like
knowing how much to spend regarding food and cloths and how to save money regarding
their finance, so that they have more money to pay for things like electricity. So in that area
they may struggle to spend wisely. Also they may have problems with concentrating on even
familiar tasks like cooking which requires a physical and mental effort would be difficult to
do as they are able to concentrate on doing it. So they would not be able to do tasks like
cooking, cleaning because there is lack of concentration. As all these things require them to
concentrate to do these tasks effectively, quickly and efficiently. “Gregory, 2000”
The quality of life of the person declines because the individual with dementia starts
struggling with things like concentrating on doing even familiar things they use to be able to
easily do before like cooking, cleaning, reading and or playing games which they used to
enjoy.
How it would affect them intellectually, is that they would find trouble learning new
information, which can make it hard for them if they must learn a new routine like cooking a
meal they have never which would affect the individual being able to understand the
information, which helps in them learning the information. And it would affect them not
being able to learn new information so they would struggle. The person may have difficulty
reading and writing if they have this type of dementia. It would affect their quality of life as
it would affect them being able to do things like reading a text or writing a response back in
a text to a loved one or friend, reading directions to get to a certain location on a bus. So
they may struggle to do normal things like reading the directions on how to get somewhere
on a bus, which would then limit them getting to places because they are not able to read
the directions, which then affect their quality of life. If they are not able to read text from a
, loved one for eg they would not be able to get the information they need in certain
occasions or even the message, they want to pass on to them. “Mason, 2023”
It would have an impact on the person emotionally, as there would be changes in their
personality and mood as they may become depressed which could happen randomly. If they
become depressed, they may stop eating and not want their personal hygiene or even take
care of their personal hygiene, that is how it would affect their quality of life. They ignore
their personal hygiene as a result. The individual may become angry, (they are angry
because they are not able to place experiences in context) which could be random, which
then affects them participating in activities they once loved with other people and make
irrational decisions that they put themselves in danger.“Mason, 2023”
And even getting along with people. The effects on the quality of life, socially is that people
with vascular dementia may struggle making friends as their personality becomes
unpredictable. Which may also make other people not want to be friends with them as
some people don’t like being with an unpredictable person, because in a negative way it can
cause people to feel overwhelmed around the person that is unpredictable and cause fear.
Especially when they show random anger outbursts which could cause people not want to
hang out with them, and they find it hard to communicate with family and friends and not
being able to express themselves, may make them frustrated that they are not able to
express themselves. Since they may find it hard to communicate with others, it would make
it hard for the individual to create boundaries with people as there would be people that
they may cross their boundaries and they would need to speak. So it would be hard for
them to do that. Even to ask questions or even talk to a loved one may be difficult for them
if they are seen as an angry person as people may not want to be around them. “ Mason,
2023”
And they may withdraw with people which may make it more difficult from there to make
friends or find a romantic partner if they are withdrawing from people by not taking part in
fun activities that others doing, which is how it affects their quality of life. Another impact
on this dementia on the person socially is that they may lack enthusiasm. “Zweig & Galvin,
2014”
This dementia, Lewy body has an effect on a person’s quality of life. As physically, is that this
dementia cause the individual to fall often so they injure themselves which can cause them
to have more injuries and body bruises than usual. The person would also have problem
with swallowing (which is known as dysphagia). So it may difficult for them to swallow meals
after eating so they may not be able to eat any solid foods but liquid foods or not any liquid
foods because they have problem swallowing. “Zweig & Galvin, 2014”
Intellectually they may have unpredictable changes in their concentration. So the individual
may find it hard concentrating on a task that requires mental effort like reading/cooking.
Their ideas may be illogical, also they may choose unreasonable choices/ make
unreasonable decisions that could put their life in danger. Like after spilling water on the
floor by accident, the person may decide not to clean it after which may then cause them to
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