Monday, 11 September 2017

Check These Symptoms When Diagnosing Before Giving Dementia Care

By Ann Hall


Dementia is the condition of impairment of insight, personality, intellect and memory resulting from brain disease or injury. Common types include frontotemporal, Lewy body and vascular dementia with the most common being Alzheimers disease. Efforts in preventing it include decreasing its risk factors like obesity, diabetes, smoking and high blood pressure though no cure has been found yet.

Typically, diagnosis is based on their illness history and a cognitive testing while eliminating other causes with the use of blood work or medical imaging. Someone which has problems with memory is not just the way for finding out if a Dementia Care CT by that person is needed. Two impairment types at least should manifest among the following that interferes significantly with their life daily.

Trouble with memory could be an early symptom specially the subtle changes happening on short term ones. They could remember events which happened years ago but does not include what they did earlier that day like the breakfast they had. Other samples include forgetting what they are going to do, where that item was left and whey they had entered the room.

They might have difficulties in finding the correct words, communicating their thoughts and explaining something to properly express themselves. Conversations with them are hard and finishing it takes longer that what is normal. They have developed apathy or lost interest in spending time with family members and friends, hobbies and activities and seem to have flat emotions.

Their mood changes with patients not recognizing it easily while you could identify it easily in others suffering potentially with dementia. Depression is usually an early symptom and their personality might also shift. Typical change a person will experience is their shift from being shy to becoming an outgoing individual because their judgment is affected with this illness.

They will struggle in completing normal tasks indicating the person having early dementia with subtle shifting of their ability. This typically starts with difficulty to do complex tasks like balancing a checkbook or playing games that has many rules. Finishing familiar tasks would be a struggle particularly when learning how to do new things and routines.

Their judgment, thinking and memory lapses that causes for confusion to arise when they cannot interact normally, find the words and remember faces. They occur for different reasons and apply in various situations like misplacing their keys and forgetting their next activity. Following storyline becomes harder such as what they heard from conversation, TV programs or movies.

Spatial orientation and sense of direction begins to deteriorate and fail usually when dementia starts. This means they fail to recognize regularly used directions and familiar landmarks anymore and it is almost impossible to follow new series of instructions and directions. Same tasks are commonly repeated and ask the same questions still even when they were answered before.

Adapting to changes will be a struggle with their experience making them afraid because they cannot suddenly remember familiar people and follow conversations. They forgot reason to go into that place and when they go home, they get lost. Because of this, routine is being craved while fearing new experiences.




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