Unit 4 Health And Social Care Level 3 P1

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Explain what is meant by the term ‘Dementia’ Dementia is signs and symptoms that are caused as a result of a certain diseases such as Alzheimer’s. This involves damaging of brain cells; as the brains cells die those with dementia will lose their ability to do things that they are used to doing. Dementia can affect both elderly and younger people which gradually will get worse as more brain cells are damaged.
Describe the key functions of the brain that are affected by Dementia
There are four main areas in the brain that are affected by Dementia causing difficulties with their functions:
1. Frontal Lobe - this part of the brain controls behaviour, personalities, movement and the understanding of what is around us.
2. Parietal Lobe – this is the part that controls that
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Temporal Lobe – this part of the brain helps to control the speech, hearing and memory.
Explain why depression, delirium and age related memory impairment maybe mistaken for dementia. Sometimes depression can be mistaken for dementia because of person behaviour and feeling of well being can change. This causes the person to appear withdrawn. However if the person is depressed then it could be depression rather than dementia causing them to be ill-being.
Delirium can happen by a cause of infection and this might be mistaken for dementia for example the person could become confused and suffer from memory loss which is also signs and symptoms of dementia.
Age related memory impairment is if someone becomes forgetful they may think or other may think that they have dementia, this is because many people associate dementia with old age and memory loss but young people can be affected too.
Outcome 2: understand key features of the theoretical models of dementia
Outline the medical model of dementia In the medical model of dementia the dementia itself is the focus rather than the person. This is then seemed as something that has to be treated and managed.
Outline the social model of