If you have a loved one living with dementia, you will be able to communicate more effectively with them if you understand the illness and its impact. The damaged brain cells cause memory loss and lead to a decline in thinking skills that will eventually cause the person to lose the ability to live independently. While every individual is different, here are a few personality changes that are commonly seen in people with memory loss.
The intent is to make yourself easy to understand and to minimize anxiety for the person with dementia. The following are tips on how to talk to someone with dementia. BDO understands that the uniqueness of Black culture - our heritage and our traditions - plays a role in our health. BDO gives you access to innovative new approaches to the health information you need in everyday language so you can break through the disparities, gain control and live your life to its fullest.
Continue Reading. Dementia covers a broad spectrum of clinical features. Although there are no distinct types of dementia, it can be broadly divided into three according to the natural history of the disease. Fixed impairment of cognition is a type of dementia which does not progress in terms of severity. It results from some type of organic brain disease or injury. Vascular dementia is a fixed impairment dementia.
Ex: stroke, meningitis , reduction of oxygenation of cerebral circulation. Slowly progressive dementia is a type of dementia which starts out as an intermittent disturbance of higher brain function and slowly worsens to a stage where there is impairment of activities of daily living.
This type of dementia is commonly due to diseases where the nerves degenerate slowly neurodegenerative. Fronto temporal dementia is a slow progressive dementia due to slow degeneration of the frontal lobe structures. Semantic dementia is a slow progressive dementia which features loss of word meaning and speech meaning. Rapidly progressive dementia is a type of dementia which does not take years to manifest itself but does so in mere months.
Treating any primary disorder, treating superimposed delirium, treating even minor medical problems, involving family support, arranging practical help at home, arrange help for carers, drug treatment and arranging institutionalized care in case of failure of home care are the basic principles of care for dementia. Drug treatment is used only when the possible side effects are outweighed by the benefits.
In severe behavioral changes such as agitation, emotional instability, occasional use of sedatives is warranted Promazine, Thioridazine. Antipsychotic drugs may be prescribed in delusions and hallucinations. If depressive features are profound, anti-depressant therapy may be started. Lewy body dementia usually progresses gradually over several years, but the way it progresses can vary significantly from person to person.
For example, Lewy body dementia may begin with signs of dementia, and Parkinsonism appears later. Most people with Lewy body dementia experience the onset of Parkinsonism and dementia within one year. As Lewy body dementia progresses, all symptoms usually become more severe. If a person acts out dreams, that is strong evidence that he or she has synuclein protein in the brain. Lewy body dementia is a complex disease, and it can be difficult to control.
Some people diagnosed with Lewy body dementia respond positively to medications called cholinesterase inhibitors.
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