Nursing Case Study Dementia

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It is virtually impossible to discuss without dementia focus our attention on families in which have incorporated the devastating consequences caused by them.
The family may delegate the care of his sick to third parties, but there are two basic affective supplies the psychic life of the person suffering demenciación process that only family can provide him the security to remain accepted and loved by his family , not to be segregated or abandoned as a result of his illness, and also assured that he will continue to keep between him and his family bonding throughout the disease process . This affective commitment offers emotional support and referential progressively sick and family are set to become trustees and guarantors both his memory
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Carmen Mas
Psychologist. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands. Vocal Psychology of Aging of the College of Psychologists of the Balearic Islands
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The caregiver can suffer is one that comes to spend most of his time (even leaving work to take care of), usually alone (although there are other family members who tend to "wash their hands" and kept in the periphery), for many years and passive and inadequate problem-solving strategies. It is considered the continued stress produced by chronic type (not the acute type of a specific situation) in a daily battle against the disease with monotonous and repetitive tasks , feeling of lack of control over the final result of this work, and psychophysical can deplete reserves caregiver . Includes develop negative attitudes and feelings toward patients I, demotivation, cared depression-anxiety , psychosomatic disorders, fatigue and exhaustion not linked to effort, irritability, depersonalization and dehumanization, stereotyped with inefficiency in solving real problems behaviors continued oppression with feelings of being overwhelmed by the situation