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Clinical Preparation and Personal Reflection

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This document discusses clinical preparation and personal reflection on topics such as dementia, hearing/vision impairments, and chronic cardiac failure. It provides information on symptoms, causes, and treatments for these conditions. The document also includes a reflection section where the author shares their learning experiences. References are provided for further reading.

Clinical Preparation and Personal Reflection

   Added on 2023-01-19

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Table of Contents
Clinical Preparation.........................................................................................................................3
Dementia.....................................................................................................................................3
Hearing/vision impairments........................................................................................................3
Chronic Cardiac failure...............................................................................................................3
Reflection.........................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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Clinical Preparation
Dementia
Dementia is mental illness. In this problem people are generally start to forget almost all
the basic things. This illness are related with the brain of human and it is decrease the ability of
think and remembering of people (Shafranske, 2016). The symptoms of dementia are losing the
ability to thinks and remember, problem with language of person, and they loose the motivation.
For the helping those types of patient who are facing the problem of dementia, palliative care
centre are the best supportive sources. Through the help of palliative care centre, members of
palliative care help them to provide to timely medicine for reduce or controlling the problem of
dementia, also help patient timely treatments and tests. Care members can also use technologies
through the people of dementia can remember their memories.
Hearing/vision impairments
The another diseases which is reflected at the time of old aged people is hearing/vision
impairments. In this aged people lose their eyesight and also face the problem in the clear vision,
most time they see the blur picture, or they can not see anything. And another disease is increase
is the hearing, with the age of people. Aged people are not hear and face the problem in hearing.
The symptoms of vision impairments is decreasing the ability to see and the reason behind this
disease is uncorrected refractive errors (Pederson & McIntosh, 2016). And the reason behind
hearing loss is genetics, ageing, exposure of noise. For prevention and the treatments of those
diseases, palliative care and life care sectors are very much helpful. This care sectors help
hearing loss people by providing them sign language, provide the subtitles. By these techniques
they will understand things. And for the treatments for the vision impairments patients, palliative
care members can provide them assistive devices through them they can see the things, also
provide them some technologies b y which they understand that something in front of them and
be aware.
Chronic Cardiac failure
Chronic cardiac failure disease is also known as heart failure. In this disease the aged
people are heart not pump properly and the sufficient blood is not meet the body needs. The
symptoms of this disease problem in the breathing, feel tried in very short time, leg swelling etc.
the causes of this illness are high blood pressure, abusive use of alcohol, infection (Needham,
McMurray & Shaban, 2016). Palliative cares are very much helpful those peoples who are
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