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Essay Instructions: DEMENTIA (from Psychological perspective) = introduction; define dementia, identify causes, symptoms and therapies and treatment. Should include statistics, particularly African American.

The paper should identify psychological stressors (like poor physical and mental health, isolation, family conflict/burden etc. that adult children encounter caregiving parents with dementia.

Will also require annotated bibliography.

Essay Instructions: Additional information:
-Normal aging = a number of skills and abilities to be intact or only slightly different. Independent in daily activities, and some slight memory loss.
-Mild cognitive impairment seen prior to dementia include significant memory complaints, such as a chronic forgetting of important information, and memory impairment on standardized tests.
-Discuss the ability to separate normal ageing from mild cognitive impairment, this may be:
?Cognitively ?differences in the extent of memory failure; verbal memory tested over time; failure to benefit from cueing at recall
?Neurobiological changes ? i.e., differences in hippocampal volume.
?Biomarkers - the presence of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE)-4 allele - initially studied as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease - may play a role in neural repair. Individuals with this protein
-Types of cognitive testing that may be used to differentiate this issue need to be discussed.

It would be great if this was done in APA format and there were no direct quotations and if the sources were scientific journal articles.

Essay Instructions: 'The enviroment is claimed to be an influence on the behaviour in people with dementia' Discuss this claim and justify the introduction of enviromental modifications which you believe will result in reducing the negative impact of the envioroment on the behaviour of people with dementia'...............

The essay is from the topic 'Dementia related behaviours' If possible could you quote some australian journal articles as well as american thankyou

Essay Instructions: Every 72 seconds someone in the US is diagnosed with alzheimers disease. Many of these people live in nursing homes. The training that CNA's recieve is not regulated and is different throughout each state. Massachusetts requires only 75 hours of training for CNA's and little of that is dementia training.Some states do not even require a GED or HS diploma. With dementia becoming so prevelent with our baby boomer population, how will these people live a quality life in nursing homes if the CNA's are not even trained.