How can cognitive knowledge of memory improve care of people with dementia?

Question 1

How dementia care is an issue for society?

Answer 1

• Spend 1.3 trillion US Dollars
• estimated to surpass 2.8 trillion in 2030
• this will increase as years go by due to people** living longer** and care **cost increasing **
• NHS spend 26 billion in UK for social works to help dementia patients and fund residential care

Question 2

How dementia care is an issue for individuals?

Answer 2

• Family with dementia will have to pay e.g. 700 pounds a week for specialised care home
• high staff turnover therfore more people leaving then being recruited affecting people with dementia individual and have to see new faces/people

Question 3

How does dementia care constract in UK contrast with care in Thailand?

Answer 3

• have better facilities considered it to be five start hotels
• more 1:1 care and staff get’s good training whilst enjoying their job unlike the NHS
• Prices are the same in uk but **better value **

Question 4

How can dementia care be improved with cognitive approaches?

Answer 4

• Cognitive stimulation therapy can be used to improve memory of dementia patients
• carried in small groups and led by trained nurses
• it helps slows down cognitive decline using STM to rehearse information acousticallly and LTM to encode semantically by moving information to make it stronger

Question 5

What does CST in Demantia care include?

Answer 5

• weekly program with sessions of two hours long for those who have mild moderate dementia
• uses meaningful activites to encode LTM e.g. word games, quizzes, opinion based discussions

Question 6

What is dementia villages and how does it improve dementia patients?

Answer 6

• they are costly but tailored to your lifestyle
• e.g. apartments decorated to the patients style/liking
• can go shopping, excercise
• its less restrcited than care home and patients can remain independent in a familar environement
• with people who have shared interest to stimulate episodic memory whilst in a safe environment
• it stimulates procedural memory e.g. knitting, cooking

Question 7

Conclusion with Dementia care in cognitive psychology

Answer 7

• cannot cure dementia but help to inform treatments to improve quality of life
• able for them to live longer
• implementing better care to help individuals

Question 8

What are the symptoms of dementia?

Answer 8

• memory loss
• confusion
• problems with speech and understanding