this is a most difficult job for anyone, if yoy are up for it, you will need a lot of patience and love.
The annual nursing home cost per patient with dementia is $47,000.
That is an issue that would vary with individuals. The physician on the spot would be the best person to determine treatment. It is quite possible that nothing can be done. Dementia, by its very nature, involves certain departures from reality.
A sudden change in personality and behavior in a dementia patient is called frontal lobe dementia. Frontal lobe dementia is a group of disorders that are caused by cell degeneration.
72 can be young or old, depends on the patient, but in the case of a sever dementia patient, one where there is no discernible quality of life a angioplasty would do nothing. angioplasty are meant to extend life as well as increase quality of life, it will not help the dementia.
I am not a doctor but multi-infarct dementia would be when multiple spots of the brian have died causing the patient to fall into a series of dementia and other illnesses.
Some word puzzles that can be used for dementia therapy are any puzzles that the patient once enjoyed working on in their spare time. Perhaps a puzzle the patient has solved in the past will help them.
Something that can make them upset
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There is encouraging research that nootropics can be used to treat dementia. Nootropics are branch of vitamins that target brain health and chemical stability.
Be nice to them, Treat them like there the first patient to come to you? Try and answer or help answer their questions and dont leave them scerd about something! Make sure they're comfortable with how you are examining them..
Dementia is diagnosed by a physician when the patient starts loss of memory. The patients thinking and reasoning declines. Its not a disease but a group of symptoms which will be diagnosed by a physician.
The general treatment for dementia is medication prescribed by the doctor(s) looking after the patient. There are other non prescription drug related treatments as well.