Dementia & NHS
Dementia
Dementia
Automatically within free NHS continuing healthcare
upon specialist NHS medical diagnosis
Automatically within free NHS continuing healthcare
upon specialist NHS medical diagnosis
upon specialist NHS medical diagnosis
From Alzheimer's Society
The NHS health and social care system discriminates against people with dementia.
Despite dementia being a medical condition, the needs of people with dementia are often seen as social care rather than healthcare needs. As a result, thousands of people with dementia spend substantial amounts of money on social care they need as a result of their medical condition.
What Alzheimer Society demand and From Infants to Over 50s party in government, work towards:
- Independent, experienced support and advocacy to help people with dementia navigate the application process and assessments to include a health or social care professional with experience of dementia.
- People currently with advanced dementia have been assessed as having no emotional or psychological needs. Alzheimer’s Society calls for NHS continuing care assessments to include a health or social care professional with experience of dementia.
- Grant Life Awards without re-assessment once diagnosed by NHS Dementia specialist. BACKGROUND - Dementia is a progressive condition. This means that the needs of people with dementia will only worsen. Despite this fact, many people with dementia are re-assessed for NHS continuing care. This is based on the seemingly illogical assumption that a person with dementia’s condition will improve.
- Look at Holland
for best practice in various care home settings, to give Dementia patients best quality of life.
In many countries, physical and chemical restraints are used extensively in care homes for older people and in acute-care settings, even when regulations are in place to uphold the rights of people to freedom and choice. An appropriate and supportive legislative environment based on internationally-accepted human rights standards is required to ensure the highest quality of care for people with dementia and their carers.
WHAT IS ALZHEIMER / DEMENTIA?
How it affects women even more than men
How it affects women even more than men
- Dementia is a syndrome in which there is deterioration in your brain's ability to process thought beyond what might be expected from the usual consequences of biological ageing.
- Although dementia mainly affects older people, it is not an inevitable consequence of ageing.
- Dementia results from a variety of diseases and injuries that primarily or secondarily affect the brain.
- Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and may contribute to
60-70% of cases. - Dementia is currently the seventh leading cause of death among all diseases and one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older people globally.
- Young Onset Alzheimer accounts for up to 9% of cases (ie before age 65).
- 65 percent of total deaths due to dementia are women, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to dementia are roughly 60% higher in women than in men.
- Additionally, women provide the majority of informal care for people living with dementia, accounting for 70% of carer hours.
Below is a Holland nursing home, example, of a dementia village, enclosed, but having village green to sit on park bench, restaurant, theatre, club room, supermarket, and your own room in the complex. Safe, as could not wander out of the village. People with iPad and desktop can see Youtube videos, but sorry cannot see on your mobile / smartphone.
Dementia / Alzheimers might be Type 3 Diabetes, according to new medical research.
American Mayo Clinic informs: ..."Type 3 diabetes (insulin resistance in the brain) occurs when neurons in the brain become unable to respond to insulin, which is essential for basic tasks, including memory and learning. Some researchers believe insulin deficiency is central to the cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s disease."...
People might not be losing their memory, but losing the access to their memories.
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