Dementia Awareness

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Dementia Awareness by Mind Map: Dementia Awareness

1. Dementia

1.1. Severe

1.2. Progressive

1.2.1. Varies

1.2.1.1. Speed

1.2.1.2. Order

1.3. Disorder

1.4. Stats

1.4.1. 1 in 3

1.4.2. 44%

1.4.3. 1 quarter

1.4.4. 1 million

2. Symptoms

2.1. Disorientation

2.1.1. Time

2.1.2. Place

2.1.3. Person

2.2. Confusion

2.2.1. Cloudiness of consciousness

2.3. Memory loss

2.3.1. Confabulation

2.3.2. Short term first

2.4. Agitation

2.5. Communication

2.5.1. Receptive dysphasia

2.5.2. Expressive dysphasia

2.6. Behaviour / personality

2.6.1. Out of character

2.7. ADL

2.8. Apathy

2.8.1. Lazy?

2.9. Co-ordination

2.9.1. Sequencing

2.9.2. Perception

2.10. Reasoning

2.11. Perception

3. Types

3.1. Vascular

3.1.1. Deprived of oxygen

3.1.2. 2nd most common

3.1.3. Prone to depression

3.2. Lewy Body

3.2.1. Parkinson's symptoms

3.2.2. Unpredictable

3.3. Mixed

3.4. Fronto-temporal

3.4.1. Rare

3.4.2. Tend to affect younger people

3.5. Alzheimer's

3.5.1. Most common

3.5.2. Abnormal proteins

3.5.3. Progressive

3.6. Less common

3.6.1. Huntington's

3.6.2. Korsakoff's

3.6.3. Parkinson's

3.6.4. Creutzfelt-Jacob

3.6.5. MND

4. Stages

4.1. Early

4.1.1. Small changes

4.1.1.1. Ability

4.1.1.2. Behaviour

4.1.2. Loss

4.1.2.1. Judgement

4.1.2.2. Interest

4.2. Middle

4.2.1. Increased change

4.2.2. Risk

4.2.2.1. Self

4.2.2.2. Others

4.3. Late

4.3.1. Dependence

4.3.2. Frailty

4.3.3. Incontinence

5. Assessment

5.1. Blood tests

5.1.1. Ruling out

5.2. Delirium

5.2.1. Temporary?

5.3. Brain scans

5.3.1. TIAs

5.4. Depression

5.4.1. Looks similar

5.5. Mild cognitive impairment

5.5.1. Memory

5.6. Full history

6. Risk factors

6.1. Age

6.2. Genetics

6.3. Gender

6.4. Vascular

7. Feelings

7.1. Anxiety

7.2. Scared

8. Capacity

8.1. Not necessarily lost

8.2. MCA (2005)

9. Person centred care

9.1. Beyond diagnosis