Effect of Noise in Dementia Care

Running head: DEMENTIA CARE
Effect of Noise in Dementia
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Table of content
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................3
The causes and symptoms of Dementia.................................................................................3
Care needed by the Dementia patients...................................................................................3
Current situation in Australian healthcare regarding the treatments available for the
Dementia patients...................................................................................................................4
Action Plan.................................................................................................................................5
Discussion..................................................................................................................................8
Achievement..........................................................................................................................8
Unachieved factors.................................................................................................................8
Future scope...........................................................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................11
Appendices...............................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
In any healthcare facility, one of the essential parts is the environment of the premises
that helps to regain the healthy physical and mental condition of the patient by direct and
indirect influences. In this assignment, the primary focus will be the psychological healthcare
setup dealing with dementia patients and their current problems regarding the ambience
noises. Dementia is a group of mental problems that affect the personal as well as social life
of an individual. One of the major disorders in this dementia group is Alzheimer’s
(Alzheimer's Association 2013) which is also very highly sensitive problem in terms of
effective ambience. In most of the cases, older people are found victimised by this
psychological condition that distorts their thought process, increases the confusion, decrease
the ability to remember, and reduces concentration. Being a group of multiple mental
disabilities, the Dementia is also founded in younger people.
The assignment will critically analyse and recommend suitable environmental
modification needed for caring patients with Dementia for the organisation named Aspire.
Aspire is a health care non-government mental healthcare organisation having the head office
at Scolz Avebue, Nuriootpa, Australia. Due to its multiple impacts on patient's everyday
activities, Dementia needs sincere care and assessment for the patient with adequate
environmental support (Dobson-Stone et al. 2013). In this assignment, the environmental
requirement will be discussed with the help of literature review based on the impact of noise
on the psychological condition of a patient of dementia. Additionally, an action plan will be
planned in order to make a suitable recommendation for organisational modification of a
mental health care organisation namely Aspire. A summary will be evaluated to summarise
the criteria of needed changes.

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Literature Review
The causes and symptoms of Dementia
Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases involving distorted thought process,
lack of short time memory, disability to interact with social components, impairment of
cognitive communication, distorted visual perception, disputed auditory functions and others
(Prince et al. 2016). All of these disabilities cause the significant imbalance in daily activities
and social interactions. Majority of dementia patients belong above 60 years of age.
However, unexceptionally dementias are also found in young people. Some of the significant
causes of dementia are vitamin B12 deficiency, Lyme disease, neurosyphilis and most
importantly Alzheimer's (Matthews et al. 2013).
Repetitive conversations, difficulties in finding the route, forgetting necessary daily
activities are the major early symptoms of the Dementia. Often patients forget to make a
proper sentence while having a conversation (Jung 2015). However, Dementia does not cause
long time memory loss with helps patient to remember their life, identity and close relatives.
On the other hand, the patients keep forgetting about a bath, taking medicine or other daily
activities. Dementia with severe symptoms of Alzheimer’s can cause permanent
psychological disability.
Effect of noise by the Dementia patients
Both psychological and physical care is required for Dementia patients. People with
dementia often find themselves extremely restless or angry due to the ambience of their
surroundings. This acoustical distraction and additional auditory disturbance also causes