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Create a 13 page essay paper that discusses An Exploration in Caring for those with Dementia.

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There are many things that caregivers can do to make those who have dementia feel more comfortable and of which allow them to still have some independence in the early stages of the illness. The conclusion shows that although there is no cure for this disease there are many ways in which the quality of life can be ensured as appropriately as possibly. It gives pause to allow for contemplation into the fact of how an individual would feel if they themselves where diagnosed with such an illness and what they would want and expect in their own care. The main point of the research is that all individuals deserve quality care and a degree of respect despite what their medical condition might be. Medical researchers have gathered enough data about this disease to feel sure that it can be labeled an organic brain syndrome which does bring about severe cognitive impairments in an individual. It can also occur due to a variety of neurological diseases that a person might have been diagnosed with. To bring more cohesive thought into this description of the disease there are more widely known dementing illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Multi-Infarct Dementia (MID), and Huntington’s Disease (HD), than simply dementia alone (Beach 1987). All of these are relatively similar to dementia in that they all cause great distress in the cognitive working areas of the brain, gradually bringing about incoherency and a lack of understanding from the individual who has the illness or illnesses. Alzheimer’s however, which is the most understood dehabilitating cognitive disease is more prominent within the elderly population, occurring in over 50% of demented patients (Beach 1987). From a clinical perspective, the disease of dementia is greatly like delirium, except for time expanse of the diseases that are varied. The disease of delirium happens to be an acute transitory disorder where as dementia in itself is a progressively long term mental disorder that slowly causes deterioration of the mental processes in the mind such as the ability to tie a show lace or for one to be able to feed themselves. The actual course of AD has been interpreted to range from 1 year to 1.5 years with an estimated length of approximately 8.1 years (Terry 1988). There are also three stages of AD which range from mild symptoms within patients to severely incapacitated individuals. It is within these three stages that medical professionals have observed how systematic the progress of the disease actually is as patients go from being able to communicate to confusion and sometimes regressive states to not being able to function on their own whatsoever. The milder form of dementia begins with memory, attention, speed dependent activities, and the abstract reasoning that patients might have (Lezak 1993). There are also language impairments that are quite noticeable as well.