Dementia Flashcards

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Caring for an older relative has been identified as one of the most stressful events one can experience

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Zarit & Edwards, 1999

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The majority of informal caregivers lack strategies for dealing with the BPSD

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Ward et al, 2003

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Bad experiences in care can lead to the social withdrawal of people with dementia

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Kitwood, 1990

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Personal detractors are behaviors that detract from the person with dementia’s personhood

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Kitwood, 1990

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Positive person work are behaviors that acknowledge the person with dementia’s personhood

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Kitwood, 1997

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Spousal caregivers’ shared life experience could prevent conversational breakdown and facilitate access, recall and retrieval from episodic memory

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Palm & Purves, 1996

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Family caregivers are provided with very little information about the impact of dementia

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Hepburn, Tornatore, Center & Ostwald, 2001

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Family caregivers may be unaware that their behavior has an impact on the person they care for

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Kitwood, 1990

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Situations are misinterpreted and may be unintentionally exacerbated by family members

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Kitwood, 1997

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Disturbed behaviour may be the result of frustration due to inability to communicate needs

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Stokes, 2000

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Carers experience anticipatory grief for themselves (companionship, personal freedom and control) and the person with dementia

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Chan, Livingstone, Jones & Sampson, 2012

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Communication can become limited to interactions during basic activities of daily living

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Bowie & Mountain, 1993

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Dehumanization can be used as a defensive process by professional carers to distance themselves from the reality of severe dementia

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Kitwood, 1990

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When people are presented with reminders of death they suppress these thoughts in an attempt to avoid considering their own mortality

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McKenzie, Brown, Mak & Chamberlain, 2016

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Professional caregivers typically report high levels of burn out and low levels of job satisfaction

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Zientz et al., 2007

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Improving communication could improve both job satisfaction of carers and quality of life of people with dementia

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Zientz et al., 2007