Essays on Dementia

Dementia is one of illness that harms for mental works—thinking, memorized, and reasoning, physiological capabilities to such as amount of full avoids of the individual’s life on daily basis and exercises. These specific works depend on the memory of the human, skills of the human language, visual perception, problem-solving techniques, self-management, the capability of attraction,...

“Dementia is a condition characterized by a progressive, irreversible decline in mental ability, accompanied by changes in behavior, personality, and, in the late stage, motor functions.” (Swartout-Corbeil, Davidson, and Atkins 430-438). Besides memory loss, most commonly the skills we use on a day to day basis are severely compromised. Dementia is a horrifying, and to...

In this essay I will be talking about what theoretical perspectives and models informed my practise when doing my fieldwork. Community care is a social policy that informed my practise because it is long-term care for people who are mentally ill, elderly, or disabled which is provided within the community rather than in hospitals or...