Psychosocial Nursing: Dementia

PSYCHOSOCIAL NURSING
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Dementia
Title: Dementia
I. Introduction
a. Describe Dementia
b. Thesis: Dementia covers conditions that impair cognitive functions. The signs and symptoms are memory loss, personality alterations, and challenges with thinking, communication, and language. Damage to brain cells causes the condition.
II. Background
The signs and symptoms of dementia
The effects of dementia on work, family, and social functioning (Pearce, 2012).
The legal and ethical concerns surrounding dementia like competency, consent, rights to treatment and commitment.
III. Treatment options for dementia patients
Discuss therapies like cognitive stimulation, behavioral, Montessori, reality orientation, and validation therapies treat dementia.
Drugs that temporarily slow symptoms. Cholinesterase inhibitors like Rivastigmine (Exelon), Galantamine (Reminyl, Razadyne ER, and Razadyne), and Donepezil (Aricept) prevent the breakdown of acetylcholine chemical in the brain, which is important for mood, memory, and learning (Neal, 2012).
Memantine drugs treat moderate to severe Alzheimer’s and enhance language, reasoning, attention, and memory (Plosker, 2015).
The side effects of Cholinesterase inhibitors like nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, frequent bowel movements, bruising, muscle cramps, head...