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Option 1: Health and Caregiver Burden
Sarah’s dad has dementia and Sarah wants to take him into her home and care for him. However, this change in living arrangements may be particularly challenging for his daughter because she must sacrifice some of her own activities to care for him. For example, she may be still caring for her own children, and she is also growing older. In this assignment, you will think about how the older and the younger person coordinate their everyday life activities and how they deal with them in their experience of caring for one another and sharing their lives.
Read Chapter 3 “Health and Health Disorders” of your textbook, and any other available current information. Also, review Chapters 5 and 6; in Chapter 5, pages 118-119 are particularly relevant. As well, review the information you studied in Module 2.
Recommended Readings:
(Substitutions for readings are permissible)
Cations, M., Laver, K. E., Crotty, M., & Cameron I. D. (2018). Rehabilitation in dementia care. Age and Ageing, 47 (2), 171-174. DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afx173 (TRU Library)
Gale, S. A., Acar, D., & Daffner, K. R. (2018). Dementia. The American Journal of Medicine, 131 (10), 1161-1169. DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.01.022 (TRU Library, search by Journal title)
Haapala, I., Biggs, S., & Kurrle, S. (2018). Social aspects of dementia and dementia practice. International Psychogeriatrics , 30 (11), 1579-1581. DOI: 10.1017/S1041610218001655 (TRU Library)
Wu, Y. T., Clare, L., Jones, I. R., Martyr, A., Nelis, S. M., Quinn, C., Victor, C. R., Lamont, R. A., Rippon, I., & Matthews, F, E. (2018). Inequalities in living well with dementia—The impact of deprivation on well‐being, quality of life and life satisfaction: Results from the improving the experience of dementia and enhancing active life study.International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(12), 1736-1742. doi.org/10.1002/gps.4998 (TRU Library)
Video:
TED. (2017, June). How my dad’s dementia changed my idea of death (and life)/Beth Malone/TED Residency, [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/beth_malone_how_my_dad_s_dementia_changed_my_idea_of_death_and_life (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
After you complete the readings and view the video, write an essay that includes answers to the following:
1. Define dementia and give your experience of it. (30 marks)
2. In the movement from cure to care, how do the psycho-social dimensions make a difference to those living with dementia? (30 marks)
3. How is dementia treated differently in urban and rural areas? (20 marks)
4. Why has multi discipline rehabilitation not been typically offered in dementia? (20 marks)
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