Critical Reflection on Practice: Mental Health Wellbeing and Dementia

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Critical Reflection on Practice
Mental Health wellbeing and Dementia
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9/10/2018

Critical Reflection on Practice 1
Critical Reflection on Practice
This essay will assess my professional, clinical practice through identifying, how I assess and
deliver support and care in mental health areas. I will support this together with theoretical
and evidence-based practice and reflect on this and how it has developed my approach,
linking decision and best practice outcomes.
During my reflection of a clinical nurse in mental health practice, being a clinical officer, I
have to support and give best possible assistances to our patients and find out different ways
of effective functioning and cognitive health specific skills improvement.
According to the figures, 23% the global problem of sickness arises in older age of human
life (Prince et al., 2015). Hence, mental health and well-being are vital in older age than at
any other phase of human life. Neurological disorders among older aged people account for
6.6 percent of the complete ill health for this age and around percent of old adults aged 60
and over grieve from a mental illness (World Health Organization, 2017).
Being a Clinical Nurse, I can help those oldsters, which are suffering from mental health
issues such as withdrawal, anxiety, agitation, irritability, shakes, and headaches (Dewing and
Dijk, 2016). Out of them, a 67-year-aged Fijian female with late onset Dementia was my
patient. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the common cause of dementia but Lewy body
dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and vascular dementia, are also predominant (Brown et
al., 2015). Dementia is a disease, generally of a chronic nature, and having symptoms like
worsening memory, intellectuality, behaviour, and the capability to execute daily activities.
Although, the disease mostly affects oldsters yet it is not a usual part of getting old (World
Health Organization, 2017)
There are so many major social as well as financial problems attached to the straight costs of
medicinal, societal, and informal care allied with dementia. Furthermore, physical, emotional,
and financial burdens can cause excessive stress to families and other carers. Therefore, my
support was needed for Fijian as she was suffering from final stage dementia. As per the strict
suggestions of World Health Organization, it mandatory to formulate health workers and
civilizations to fulfil the required needs of old age populations.
Therefore, in our clinic, there were OT activity and common area where so many activities
based on socialisation and disease care were conducted. Still, to encourage Fijian to come out