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Dementia and End of Life Care - PDF

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Dementia and End of Life Care - PDF

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................11 Diet schedule for Dementia patient..........................................................................................12 How Alzheimer’s disease affects brain and stages..................................................................23 The mental capacity act for patient suffering from Dementia................................................24 Advanced care planning and end of life care..........................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
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INTRODUCTIONDementia is disease related to mental health in which patient losses his memory andforgets to perform basic task of his daily life activities. This disease usually caused by somephysical changes in brain of individual. This report describes briefly about Dementia, its impactover patient and his family, how it can be cured with usage of appropriate diet and otherpractices. MAIN BODY1 Diet schedule for Dementia patientDementia usually affects memory of its patient in which sometimes patient usually forgetto its take its regular based meal. An appropriate diet chart is helpful for patient as it helps themin strengthening their body reduce the affect of this disease (Meet the MIND Diet, 2018). It isessential to the family members to include some of the food items like blueberries, eggs, oats,ginger, oily fish, nuts etc. which strengthens brain of patient. Diet chart for patient of Dementiais described as below: Diet chartBreak fast: 2 eggs in butter + ½ cup berries/ fruitMid time meal: 1 oz cheese + 4 multigrain crackersLunch: 1 cup multigrain pasta + ½ cut vegetables with tomato sauce + ¼ cup roasted nutsMid time meal: 2 fruit Kabobs + ½ cup plain yogurtDinner: 3 oz white fish + ½ cup boiled brown rice +1 cup veggies + 5 oz red wine. Care taker of Dementia patient should focus on providing all above mentioned the fooditems and also tries to avail them best nutrient food which helps in enhancing their mental abilityto remember things (Berlinger, Jennings and Wolf, 2013). Along with the above described chart,care taker should also emphasize on reducing ratio sugar and salt in diet of patient. Increase intake of approximately 6-8 glasses of fluid every day. This will help patient in strengthening itsbrain. Regular based exercise is also helpful in recovering with the Dementia. 1
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