Dementia in Aged Care

Dementia in Aged Care
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Introduction
• Dementia is a neurodegenerative
disease
• It leads to gradual deterioration in
memory, cognitive skills, and
behavioural skills
• Hamper in the neurological and
cognitive skills create barrier in
performing activities of daily
living
• Dementia mainly affects older
people however it is not a part of
normal ageing
(World Health Organisation 2019)

Dementia in Aged Care in
Australia
• As per the Australian statistics, nearly one
out of ten Australians in who are aged over
65 years is suffering from dementia during
the year 2016.
• Nearly 354,000 Australian are estimated to
have dementia during the year 2016
• Among the total number of dementia
patients in Australia, 52% of the patients
resides under the residential healthcare
settings and rest resides under in-patient
settings
• 11,000 occurs in Australia due to dementia
making it second leading cause of death in
Australia
• (Australian Institute of Health Welfare 2018)

Symptoms of Dementia
There are three stages of dementia like
• Early stage
• Inability to track time
• Losing direction in familiar places
• Increased sense of forgetfulness
• Middle stage
• Forgetting recent events and name of the near and dear ones
• Becoming lost at home
• Forgetting to take medicines
• Requiring person care assistance while at home for conducting daily
living activities
• Behavioural changes
• Late stage
• Becoming unaware of place and time
• Having difficulty in communicating
• Difficulty in walking
• Increased need in assisted self-care
• Difficulty in maintaining hand eye co-ordination