Portraits of individuals with dementia: views of care managers
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Dementia is a growing concern worldwide. In Scotland alone 1.32% of the population have dementia and about 40% of these people live in a care home or hospital (Care Commission and Mental Welfare Commission, 2009). Dementia is an umbrella term for a persistent impairment in multiple areas of intellectual function including attention, orientation, memory, judgment, language, motor and spatial skills (Mendez and Cummings, 2003). Dementia, although typically associated with aging, can occur to anyone at any age. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer‘s disease but there are over 100 different types of dementia each with unique causes and symptoms. No two people with dementia will have the same experience of the disease with life history, relationships, personality and environment a stronger factor than the dementia (Chapman, et al., 2001).
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